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- Mycli (https://github.com/dbcli/mycli) is a happy recipient of sponsorship from this program. OpenAI asked for nothing in return; not even a link.by drw
- Are you saying they aren't getting training data from you?
- I think programs like this are cool, the company gets to promote their product and do good at the same time. This looks like a broader program than past ones and giving out GPT5.5 could be meaningful in improving open-source projects' security.by 2001zhaozhao
- "Critical open source software" should not, and maybe cannot, be maintained with its development requiring huge commercial-corporate infrastructure in the form of OpenAI's LLMs.
It should be maintained by humans, relying on widely available hardware and software, requiring little of both.
Not saying that using LLMs as a convenience is forbidden or anything, but the direction is problematic.
(Also, this sounds like a cheap alternative to actually funding FOSS work.)
by einpoklum - 6 whole months?! Gee golly thanks mister!
- Do you complain to the bank that credit cards have expiration dates or to the government that passports also do?by baq
- Agreed. Seems like it should be indefinite given they created a multi billion dollar company off the backs of these maintainers dedicating their hard earned timed for free to begin with and then trained models against their code.
IMO this is an insult if anything
- a huge aspect of open source is the user -> contributor -> maintainer pipeline. maybe they mean well, but in fact they're constructing a wall between those last two groups.
especially in larger projects where maintainership duties are heavily delegated, the last thing i want is some tool that can only be used by me, because suddenly i can no longer share the workload that tool targets with people who aren't "technically" maintainers.
by colinsane - I did fill the form our a while back (it was around for a few months now) without any response. I guess must be really big OSS project for maintainer to qualify.by ilia-a
- What project did you apply for?
- Same. But I got one from Anthropic.
- What does this clause here mean and why would they include it? https://developers.openai.com/codex/codex-for-oss-terms#7-su...
Isn't the thing open source and governed by its own license?
by hmokiguess - That is interesting. I would have thought they had that right without needing to add it to the ToS.by arjie
- If you only give 6mo then this is the opposite of a commitment to open source it’s a drug dealers tactic of giving the first taste for free.by ixtli
- drug dealers should teach MBA classes at this point - so many strategies pioneered by them get used by large tech companiesby altmanaltman
- > If you only give 6mo then this is the opposite of a commitment to open source it’s a drug dealers tactic of giving the first taste for free.
Its arguably even more self-serving than the drug dealer tactic because of the feedback loop involved (if you use it to maintain your open source project, OpenAI will surely use that new code [along with all the existing code in your project] to train future models).
So it would be like if the drug dealer gave you the first taste for free and also the drug caused you to shit out more drugs and the drug dealer harvested your shit to sell to both future you plus other people.
by georgemcbay - I applied for the first time a couple of months ago and again this month, but unfortunately I haven’t heard back from them :(
I’m building EasyInvoicePDF - a free and open-source invoice generator. (900+ GitHub stars, 2k monthly users on average, 10k total invoices downloaded)
by vldszn - FYI this program is ~3 months old, and Anthropic has a similar Claude for Open Source program (see https://claude.com/contact-sales/claude-for-oss).
- I applied for both. Heard back from neither. Mentioned two particular projects when applying, one with 2k stars and 5M monthly downloads, and another with 2M monthly downloads.by rmast
- I applied for my oss project Filestash which satisfy all their criterias but never heard back despite the project having millions of users, more than 14000 stars on github and representing more work than a single person can cope with
- Seems rather stingy - 6 months is barely longer than you will get on a free signup deal for a lot of online products anyway. Kind of worse than nothing if it causes you to adopt work patterns that aren't sustainable for the project after the offer ends.by zmmmmm
- No good deed goes unpunishedby cush
- They're doing everything possible to drive up their MAU before their IPO.by jiggawatts
- Which online product gives away 6 months of a $100 per month subscription?
- Same as Anthropic's similar offer, they're only giving 6 months free. This really just feels like a way to get OSS maintainers hooked so they buy subscriptions after the free period is over.
If they were really serious about supporting OSS, they'd offer it for free perpetually (well, with periodic checks to ensure the maintainers are still affiliated with the project). Anything less just makes it look like a marketing stunt.
And also, dumb how Github-centric this is, same as Anthropic's signup form. Most of my OSS contributions aren't on Github. Guess that means the projects I've worked on don't matter.
by kelnos - is there any company or product that donates their subscription service free forever ?by dominotw
- I read anthropic's offer is majorly nerfed compared to their regular 20x plan. I've seen OSS develoeprs ask anthropic to revert their plan to a paid plan because it's otherwise a hindrance.by prodigycorp
- Presumably it's also sessions that they will absolutely use as training data?by petesergeant
- The bulk of open source development is (still?) on Github.
It's not like the Linux kernel isn't real. It's just that the kind of people who write Linux kernel patches and get them accepted are, in the eyes of an average open source developer, somewhere between "majestic magical creatures" and "madmen".
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