Who decides,and what you may call it.
Stewardship is a role, not ownership of what you run. The code is EUPL 1.2, and an organisation that wants to run, support or resell Sextant needs nobody’s permission.
A project of the DAWO community
DAWO is a community project for public-sector workplaces, and Sextant is one of the things built under it. BB Open Solutions is the steward today: it keeps the roadmap, reviews contributions, cuts the releases and runs the security process. Selling hosting and support is a separate role it holds like any other partner, with no privileges attached.
How decisions are made
Anything that shapes the product goes into a decision record before it goes into code. We would rather argue about a design in writing than discover the disagreement in review. The records are public, including the ones that argue against what we ended up doing.
What contributors keep
Contributions come in under DCO: sign your commits, keep your copyright. There is no assignment to sign, and no version of this project that is licensed differently to paying customers.
Using the name
The code is EUPL 1.2 and yours to run, fork and change. The name is the one thing a licence deliberately does not hand out, because a name that means four different things stops helping anybody. There is no registered mark today, so what follows is a community agreement rather than a legal claim.
Fine
Not fine
How the work is paid for
Partners sell support, implementation and hosting, and that is what funds most of the development. It gates nothing. A fleet on its own infrastructure is not a lesser one, and no feature is held back to make a sale.
What happens if the steward disappears
The licence answers that on its own: the code is EUPL 1.2, the history is on two forges, and one of them is run by the Dutch government. A fork needs no permission and loses nothing but the name.
One document for every laptop.site.audit.
Take it, run it, help build it.
The software is yours under the EUPL 1.2 and needs nobody’s permission. What the project needs is people: a laptop model we have never imaged, a language nobody has translated, a bug found by running it for real.