mikemcquaid/open-source-resistance

Open Source Resistance is a small, single page website built with Jekyll, a tool for turning simple text files into a website, that hosts a short written manifesto at ossresistance.com. This is not a piece of software people install or run. It is a webpage making an argument about how companies should treat open source maintenance. The manifesto's central point is that when a company relies on open source software, the engineers who work there and who already maintain that software as part of their job should be allowed to keep doing that maintenance simply as part of their normal engineering work. It argues this should happen without extra paperwork, without turning it into an official branded program, and without needing a manager's separate approval first. The author frames this as a further step beyond two earlier, gentler efforts with similar goals, called Open Source Friday and the Open Source Pledge, both of which ask companies nicely to support open source. This project instead argues maintainers should simply act, rather than waiting to be given permission. It was created by Mike McQuaid, who also helped create Open Source Friday and GitHub Sponsors, and who has been a maintainer of the Homebrew package manager project since 2009, where he is currently the project leader. The README itself is short, containing only a brief description, author background, and licensing details rather than technical instructions, since the repository's real content is the manifesto text on the linked website rather than any code to run. The project is released under the GNU Affero General Public License version 3, meaning anyone who reuses or adapts the source, including running a modified version as a network service, must share their changes under the same license.