Resources for Indies

Indie Open Source maintains a variety of resources for indie open source software developers.

Business Model Guides

Indie Open Source hosts a number of guides to popular business models for indie developers:

• Advertising for Indies

• Delayed Release for Indies

• Paid Hosting for Indies

• Open Core Allocation

• Open Core for Indies

• Paid Development for Indies

• Paid Support for Indies

• Choosing a Public License for Public-Private Licensing

• Public-Private Licensing for Indies

Business Model Explainers

Indie Open Source hosts a number of explainer pages, to help you communicate your business model to users:

• What is paid advertising?

• What is delayed release?

• What is paid hosting?

• What is open core?

• What is paid development?

• What is paid support?

• What is public-private licensing?

Explainers for Contributors

Indie Open Source hosts a number of explainer pages to help you communicate your business model to potential contributors to your projects:

• Contributing to Projects with Ads

• Contributing to Projects with Paid Hosting

• Contributing to Open Core Projects

• Contributing to Paid Development Projects

• Contributing to Projects with Paid Support

• Contributing to Public-Private Licensing Projects

Legal Forms

Indie Open Source maintains a number of legal forms to give you starting points for the legal parts of your business:

• Contributor License Agreement

• Issue Sponsorship Terms

• Paid Software License Agreement

• Slipstream Web Service Agreement

• Enterprise Ready Open Software Supplement

• Software Support Contract

• Switchmode Software Development Contract

• Open Development Time Block Terms