The Public Copy initiative
consists of the description of a mechanism for allocating and
then redistributing funds to open source projects, which a
company can freely choose to implement provided that it respects its
form and spirit. .
The system proposed by Public Copy is not a fund shared by
several companies : each company choosing to adopt the Copie
Publique mechanism contributes alone to its own fund, on the basis of an
annual base that it chooses and makes public. A company can thus devote,
for example, 1% of its turnover, or 3% of its net management surplus, or
even a fixed amount per year. The only condition is that the rule is
clear, transparent, and allows contributions to the fund on a recurring
basis.
Different aspects of the Public Copy mechanism are interesting to
highlight, in particular those relating to the process of
selecting supported projects chosen by the company Code Lutin
and the dynamics that this process generates: