Supporting Open Source Maintainers: A German Petition for Better Legal Frameworks
Open source software, as Jenkins, is the foundation of modern software development.
Contributors maintain plugins, review pull requests, fix security issues, and support users, often alongside their regular jobs.
Many of these contributions happen in what is often called “Ehrenamt” (voluntary work), especially in Germany.
However, the work done by thousands of volunteers for this goal is not recognized in Germany as volunteering,...
