Setting your project up for commercial usage
Creating a way for commercial vendors to use and leverage your project invites more usage, often in ways you might not have imagined before. It also opens up the possibility of new contributors and maintainers to help support and drive your project, helping improve how things work and the quality of the code base itself.
There are some things we should consider for a project to ensure that commercial usage adds value versus creates confusion. Let’s look at them now, starting with branding and IP management.
Branding and IP management
As we illustrated at the start of Chapter 3, Open Source License and IP Management, having solid management of your project’s brand and IP is crucial. If you talk with a lawyer that specializes in intellectual property, they will likely stress how ensuring your project’s brand is being used as intended is quite crucial to helping users understand the project.
We covered branding...
