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Method for Distributing Earnings from an Open Source Project?

Posted by Cliff on from the getting-your-fair-share dept.

mindlace23 asks: "Assuming you had some mechanism by which an open source project generated revenue, how would you fairly distribute those earnings amongst the contributors to the software? Rules that most clearly avoid bias would be preferable; Some sort of automated heuristic would be ideal if it's not gameable."

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  1. Voting by Muhammar · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Ask the person who is likely receive most of the money to make a proposal about his revard and distribution amongst others. Publish the proposal and take poll about it. Have an authoritative person of good reputation (not financialy involved) to make the final decision.
    Anything else is heuristic balooney.

    No matter what the algorythm, your input is allways going to be subjective.

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    I doubt that we will ever figure out - and I suspect that even if we did figure out we couldn't do much about it