Dries Buytaert: The 60-second procurement test

Open Source projects have spent decades asking companies to contribute. Projects should also give buyers the information they need to reward the companies that do. Any Open Source project with a commercial or institutional funding ecosystem should publish an official contribution record: who contributes, how much and over what period, what kind of work they do, which parts of the project they work on, and, where disclosed, who paid for the work.