Request for Prior Work on Inner Source Licenses and CLAs

[chamindra]

Stage 1 of Inner Source Licensing Working group: Gather prior work

The first stage of the inner source licensing working group that was kicked off on the 7th Nov 2022 (Ref https://github.com/finos/InnerSource/issues/72) is to gather all (sharable) present work being done on Org Specific Inner Source Licenses, Inner Source CLAs, Inner Source Contracts, Guidelines for the purpose of analysis to identify a common set of clauses for our Inner Source license generator.

If you feel you cannot share your Org Inner Source license / contracts due to compliance/sensitive reasons consider obfuscating/generalising them or breaking down into some key terms you can share on this forum.

Alternatively if you do not wish to publish it directly here, please do share it with me or the Inner Source SIG leads so that they can share it without attribution to any org (under Chatham house rules)

This would be a very valuable contribution to the goals of the Inner Source License Working Group

Meanwhile I am listing here some of the prior work I have found in this area so far:

1. Inner Source Commons: Inner Source license pattern https://patterns.innersourcecommons.org/p/innersource-license
2. Create innersource-contractor-model-terms https://github.com/InnerSourceCommons/InnerSourcePatterns/pull/378
3. Create transitioning-contractor-code-to-innersource-model https://github.com/InnerSourceCommons/InnerSourcePatterns/pull/377
4. DB Inner Source License https://github.com/dbsystel/open-source-policies/blob/master/DB-Inner-Source-License.md

[chamindra]

some license generator code projects I found

• https://github.com/ek9/generator-license-cc.
• https://github.com/jozefizso/generator-license

[psmulovics]

another chooser/generator from creative commons: https://github.com/creativecommons/chooser