Agriya gives unsolicited advice

title shamelessly stolen from Sai Rahul Poruri's blog, "Rahul gives unsolicited advice" – https://rahulporuri.blogspot.com/

Motivations towards contributing to open source

Wearing multiple hats

"open-source" vs open source

https://opensource.org/blog/is-open-source-ever-hyphenated

Licenses

The Llama 3 license

"If, on the Llama 3 version release date, the monthly active users of the products or services made available by or for Licensee, or Licensee's affiliates, is greater than 700 million monthly active users in the preceding calendar month, you must request a license from Meta"

The Llama 4 license

 Additional Commercial Terms. If, on the Llama 4 version release date, the monthly active users of the products or services made available by or for Licensee, or Licensee’s affiliates, is greater than 700 million monthly active users in the preceding calendar month, you must request a license from Meta, which Meta may grant to you in its sole discretion, and you are not authorized to exercise any of the rights under this Agreement unless or until Meta otherwise expressly grants you such rights.

Funding

Global funding initiatives

Fund Amount Focus

GitHub Secure OSS	$1.25M	Security + Training
Sovereign Tech Agency	€22M	Critical infrastructure
Zerodha FLOSS	$1M	Indian projects
OpenTeams REPOS	Variable	Community-driven projects
Open Collective	$50M+ managed	Fiscal hosting
Python Software Foundation	$3M+ grants	Python ecosystem