100 Point Open Source Projects
From P2P Foundation
Characteristics
“Dion Almaer's Being Open is Hard provides a great starting point for describing how all Dojo Foundation projects are "100-point" open source projects:
- 0 points: Say you are open
- 10 points: Choose an OSI license (BSD, AFL, Apache, MIT, etc.)
- 20 points: Define the governance of the code. (Check)
- Does one company hold all of the cards? (No)
- Can others participate? (Yes)
- For code, who participates? (Committers and contributors)
- Can anyone patch? (Yes, with a CLA)
- Can you, and if so how do you become a committer? (Yes, follow instructions for contributing patches and getting involved)
- At the core: How are decisions made (In the Open)
- 30 points: A reference implementation under an open source license (Check)
- 40 points: Where does the IP stand? (Clean, open, with CLAs). Did you donate it to a foundation? (Yes) “
