Open Source
Fair Source Software in the AI age
How generative AI is disrupting software licensing models and why Fair Source software remains viable in the AI era.
Blogs Published by Chad Whitacre
Open Source
Another year, another $750,000 to Open Source maintainers
Sentry’s 2025 open source report: $750k committed, $4.5M paid by Pledge members, and why paying maintainers is no longer optional.
Open Source
We Just Gave $750,000 to Open Source Maintainers
In honor of the 4th year of our Open Source Pledge, we’re excited to continue driving this important conversation. See what we’ve accomplished in 2024 here.
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Sentry is now Fair Source
Today we’re launching Fair Source, a new approach to software sharing that is safe for companies to adopt and developers to use. Before Fair Source, companies…
Open Source
Now’s The Time For Delayed Open Source
Sentry was born and bred in the Open Source community, and we very much think of ourselves as part of it today. One thing we’ve learned together over the years…
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Introducing the Functional Source License: Freedom without Free-riding
Sentry started life in 2008 as an unlicensed, 71-line Django plugin. The next year we began publishing it under BSD-3, and ten years later we switched to the…
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We Just Gave $500,000 to Open Source Maintainers
Want to hear more? Register for “The Future of Open Source: The State of Sustainability”, on October 26. --- Sentry is an Open Source-aligned company, and our…
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Sentry's Open Source Values
Sentry's Open Source values are 1) sustainability for maintainers and 2) access to technology and knowledge for developers. If you share our values then let's work together to move the conversation forward.
Open Source
We Just Gave $260,028 to Open Source Maintainers
Sentry is an Open Source-aligned company, and it’s important to us to financially support our non-commercial colleagues in the community as we continue to…
Open Source
Yes, Open Source Is Sustainable
Two months ago, we announced our annual investment in open source maintainers, mostly folks whose work we depend on to deliver Sentry to you, plus a few…
Open Source
We Just Gave $154,999.89 to Open Source Maintainers
Sentry is an Open Source-aligned company. We started out in 2008 as a small open source side project, and we grew within the community for years before…
Open Source
Hacktoberfest is Upon Us
Ah, October. Pumpkin spice fills the nostrils of Northern Hemispherians, spring stirs the air in the South, and DigitalOcean & Friends bring us yet another…
