Open-source bounty

An open-source bounty is a monetary reward for completing a task in an open-source software project.

## Contents

* 1 Description
* 2 Examples of bounties
* 3 See also
* 4 References

## Description

Bounties are usually offered as an incentive for fixing software bugs or implementing minor features.[1] Bounty driven development is one of the business models for open-source software.[citation needed] The compensation offered for an open-source bounty is usually small.[2]

## Examples of bounties

* 2018: Mozilla Firefox's WebRTC (Web Real-Time Communications) bug was submitted by Education First to Bountysource for $50,000.[citation needed]
* Sun MicroSystems (now owned by Oracle Corporation) has offered $1 million in bounties for OpenSolaris, NetBeans, OpenSPARC, GlassFish, OpenOffice.org, and OpenJDK.[3]
* 2004: Mozilla introduced a Security Bug Bounty Program, offering $500 to anyone who finds a "critical" security bug in Mozilla.[4]
* 2015: Artifex Software offers[5] up to $1000 to anyone who fixes some of the issues posted on Ghostscript Bugzilla.
* Two software bounties were completed for the Amiga AROS operating system, producing a free Kickstart ROM replacement for use with the UAE emulator and FPGA Amiga reimplementations, as well as original Amiga hardware.[6][7]
* RISC OS Open bounty scheme to encourage development of RISC OS[8]
* AmiZilla was an over $11,000 bounty to port the Firefox web-browser to AmigaOS, MorphOS & AROS. While the bounty produced little results it inspired many bounty systems in the Amiga community including Timberwolf, Power2people, AROS Bounties, Amigabounty.net and many more.[citation needed]

## See also

* Bountysource
* Bug bounty program
* Business models for open-source software
* Crowdfunding
* Google Summer of Code

## References

1. ↑ Kanda, T.; Guo, M.; Hata, H.; Matsumoto, K. (2017). "Towards understanding an open-source bounty: Analysis of bountysource". 2017 IEEE 24th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER). IEEE. pp. 577–578. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/315639032.
2. ↑ Zhou, J.; Wang, S.; Zhang, H.; Chen, T.H.P.; Hassan, A.E. (2021). "Studying backers and hunters in bounty issue addressing process of open source projects". Empirical Software Engineering (Springer) 26 (4): 1–36. doi:10.1007/s10664-021-09979-z. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10664-021-09979-z.
3. ↑ Shaun Nichols (30 January 2008). "Sun sets $1 million open source bounty". nextmedia. https://www.itnews.com.au/news/sun-sets-1-million-open-source-bounty-102229.
4. ↑ Linda Rosencrance (3 August 2004). "Brief: Mozilla offers bounty for bugs". Computerworld. https://www.computerworld.com/article/2566687/brief--mozilla-offers-bounty-for-bugs.html.
5. ↑ "Ghostscript: Bug bounty program". http://www.ghostscript.com/Bug_bounty_program.html. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
6. ↑ "Amiga.org - Kickstart ROM Replacement (Phase II) Assigned". http://www.amiga.org/forums/printthread.php?t=55226. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
7. ↑ "Kickstart ROM Replacement (Phase II)". http://www.power2people.org/projects/profile/6. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
8. ↑ "RISC OS Open: All bounties". http://www.riscosopen.org/bounty/. Retrieved 14 July 2015.

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