A permissive open-source license which require users of your work to contribute to any open-source work in some way.
I love permissive open-source work. The projects help us create new services, products and much more. A lot of people and companies try their best to contribute back to the community, which is great, we just need more of it.
I want to create a license for open-source work that will require users of the projects using this license to contribute to any open-source work in any way they can.
Let's find a way to make paying it forward the norm. Where would your startup or product be today without open-source? Would you be able to ship a new product in a few months without using open-source projects?
License text can be found in LICENSE.md
Companies using open-source projects with this license could have a public open-source policy, which would show how they contribute to open-source.
A person/company creating a project/product using an open-source project with this license finds a bug in the open-source project should takes the time to submit an pull-request to fix that bug instead of just fixing it locally.
I hope that this license or a similar license will become the most popular license used by open-source projects to help open-source in general getting more contributions of any kind.
Please open an issue to start a discussion. Submit a PR to suggest changes, additions, etc.