https://ossfunded.com/tags/licensing/ Recent content in Licensing on Open Source Funded Hugo en-us Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000 https://ossfunded.com/posts/2026-04-13/ Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000 https://ossfunded.com/posts/2026-04-13/ <p>This week in <strong>Open Source Funded</strong>, projects kept moving into foundation structures just as the funding picture looked uneven again.</p> <p><strong>Apache</strong> picked up a major donation and turned it into a bigger responsible-AI funding push. <strong>CPython</strong> maintenance funding was extended. <strong>GitButler</strong> and <strong>SiFive</strong> landed fresh capital. But <strong>Session</strong> warned it may only have about 90 days of runway left. Across the rest of the cycle, the AI story stayed familiar: better tools often meant more review, more policy, and more operational burden for maintainers. The sharper licensing questions moved toward AI model terms, provenance fights, and what &ldquo;open&rdquo; will mean in the next round of model releases. Meanwhile, the <strong>VeraCrypt / WireGuard</strong> signing mess showed how much open source distribution still depends on third-party chokepoints.</p> https://ossfunded.com/posts/2026-04-06/ Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000 https://ossfunded.com/posts/2026-04-06/ <p>This week in <strong>Open Source Funded</strong>, open source kept getting more formal structure at exactly the moment its human support systems looked shakier.</p> <p>Several projects moved into foundation homes or foundation-run structures. But the rest of the week was rougher: office-suite communities fell into public licensing and governance fights, security funding paused in visible ways, maintainer succession remained fragile, and AI kept pushing more cost into review queues instead of removing it.</p>