DSOS eligibility: non-commercial open source with no pathway to commercialization
Catalog row in Vendor License Rules · Cited
- Kind
- Restriction
- Statement
- DSOS application page (as published on retrieval 2026-09-26): project must be public on Docker Hub with public source, meet the Open Source Initiative definition, be in active development (updates within the past 6 months), and have no pathway to commercialization (donations allowed). Benefits go only to project leads and core committers, last one year (renewable), are used solely for non-commercial open-source projects, and cannot be shared with third parties.
- Applies when
- Open source project applying for DSOS.
- Applies to
- Docker-Sponsored Open Source Program
- Aliases
- DSOS eligibility
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