Talk:Open-source bounty

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More info and Context

Hi, I think we should have a few more links to current open source bounty initiatives on this wiki page, such as https://www.bountysource.com and others

Secondly I think it would be useful to extend this article by adding more information about the background of os bounties, for example that it is closely related to the novel concept of crowdsourcing and what the opinions (of course preserving Neutrality of Content) on this are in academia and by industry professionals.

I might suggest an edit in this direction soon, but in the mean time, just wanted to put this content suggestion forward!

thanks, Martin —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.2.108.9 (talk) 17:37, 5 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Bounty by crowdfunding?

Not sure if http://www.freedomsponsors.org is really something new in this context and if it's valueable enough for WP, but I never heared about a crowdfunding platform dedicated to opensource? --MyRobotron (talk) 21:52, 28 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

There are now two (at least), BountySource and Catincan. Shaddim (talk) 10:32, 10 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

add https://firebounty.com to that list as well. DennisDaniels (talk) 08:13, 28 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

RISC OS Open

As far as a brief perusal of the RISC OS Open licences indicates, RISC OS Open is not available under an open source licence. Although the recursive legal language and general obfuscation suggests that the base (personal) licence has some copyleft properties, there is an obvious restriction that the software may not be used "in any hardware product which is intended for commercial sale" (see section 2.4). Consequently, any bounties are not likely to be "open source" ones, at least not generally for RISC OS Open. PaulBoddie (talk) 14:42, 13 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

setting bounty for fixing mediawiki bugs

Surprisingly I'm unable to find information on how to participate/fund code bounties for mediawiki bugs/issues. Please help me ID the process/service that funds developers to fix specific bugs in Mediawiki. DennisDaniels (talk) 08:16, 28 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Mozilla "bounty"

Mozilla's bounty is a bug bounty, and not a bounty to encourage development work. Is it really an appropriate example for this article?--Topperfalkon (talk) 11:50, 15 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Removal of IssueHunt

From what I can tell, IssueHunt is no longer paying developers. I have removed it from this list for that reason. Trickypr (talk) 01:39, 5 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]