Lsos – open-source, financially sustainable and independent
Open source, sustainable & independent
Lsos – open-source, financially sustainable and independent launched on December 23, 2020 with 5 votes, #1,432 of 3,242 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 5 years on.
What it does
The Lsos is a small tool to add pricing to an open source project. We believe price should never stop anyone from building; we ensure that all Lsos projects are free for individuals, small projects, and nonprofits, and that fees are low enough to be accessible for the larger companies who pay. Users have confidence that they will always be able to use Lsos projects, no matter how much money at disposal. Unlike other financial models, everything stays open source and permissive: source code stays MIT licensed. Instead of leveraging copyright law, Lsos projects include the Lsos library which verifies whether larger companies have a valid activation key. Lsos projects can choose between trust…from lsos.org
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