Post Open (for Post Open Source) is a proposed successor to the

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software paradigm, originated by Bruce Perens, the creator of the Open Source Definition and co-founder of the

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. It is promoted at the web sit
PostOpen.org
Post open source, also called "post open-source software (POSS)", was a 2012/2013 noticed movement among

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s, in particular

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developers. The interpretation was that this was a reaction to the complex compliance requirements of the

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/ permission culture, noticed by more code being posted into repositories without any license whatsoever, implying a disregard for the current license regimes, including

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as supporter of the current

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system (" Copyright reform movement").

History

"POSS" was first used by James Governor, founder of analyst firm RedMonk, who said ''"younger devs today are about POSS – Post open-source software. fuck the license and governance, just commit to github."'' According to Luis Villa, when even ''"...the open license ecosystem assumes that sharing can't (or even shouldn't) happen without explicit permission in the form of licenses"'', developers vote their dissent through POSS. This was mostly ineffective, since the default in international copyright law is "all rights reserved", and some dedication to the public domain or license is necessary if the software is to be shared with the public without legal ambiguity.

Precursor

In 2004 Daniel J. Bernstein pushed a similar idea with his License-free software, where he neither placed his software ( qmail, djbdns, daemontools, and ucspi-tcp) into

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nor released it with a

. But, with end of 2007 he dedicated his software in the

with an explicit waiver statement.

References

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History

Precursor

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