- Open-source bounty
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An open-source bounty is a reward, usually monetary, for making contributions to an open-source project. BountySource and many other websites have been established to advertise such bounties.
- Sun MicroSystems has offered $1 million in bounties for OpenSolaris, NetBeans, OpenSPARC, Project GlassFish, OpenOffice, and OpenJDK.[1]
- The Google Summer of Code and the OSU Winter of Code provide stipends to students working on open source code.[2]
- Mozilla introduced a Security Bug Bounty Program offering $500 to anyone who finds a "critical" security bug in Mozilla.[3]
- Artifex Software offers[4] up to $1000 to anyone who fixes some of the issues posted on Ghostscript Bugzilla.
- Two software bounties were completed for the classic Commodore Amiga Motorola 680x0 version of the AROS operating system, producing a free Kickstart ROM replacement for use with the UAE emulator and FPGA Amiga reimplementations, as well as original Amiga hardware.[5][6]
Bounties are often used for implementing minor features, whereas bidding and/or grants are more typically used for major features.
See also
- Reverse bounty
References
- ^ Sun Sponsors Open Source Community $1M Innovation Award, Sun MicroSystems, http://www.sun.com/software/opensource/awards/
- ^ http://osel.oregonstate.edu/index.php?title=OSU_Winter_of_Code
- ^ Leyden, John (2004-08-03), Mozilla to pay bounty on bugs, The Register, http://www.securityfocus.com/news/9255
- ^ http://www.ghostscript.com/Bug_bounty_program.html
- ^ amiga.org – Kickstart ROM Replacement (Phase II) Assigned
- ^ – power2people.org Kickstart ROM Replacement (Phase II)
External links
- FOSS Factory – bounties for open source software
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