The Commons Conservancy is the model proposed by NLnet as a conservancy offer to the NREN community. The core details about this model are as follows:
- NLnet will offer a lightweight conservancy model to mature software projects that want to manage financial contributions to the project.
- Projects will be broadly self-governing, with each project appointing a Software Advisory Council to take on the role of a Board for the project.
- The Commons Conservancy is license agnostic, but requires projects to be open source and for software licenses and contributions to be appropriately managed.
- Each project has a dedicated sub-fund and can spend this on activities to ensure the development of the project.
- Between 5%-8% of project funds is allocated to NLnet for supporting this function. This in turn is channeled into the
Further details can be found in this introductory document .