The excellent Linux Vendor Firmware Service project by @hughsie - LVFS, but which you might know through its tooling fwup and fwupdmgr - has published a "sustainability plan".

This basically asks larger hardware vendors to contribute engineering resource (people) or money, to help sustain it.

I rely on this superb project, as an amazingly convenient way of doing firmware updates to my ThinkPad using Linux.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1l_Rmkn2-UwOkS0XK5d6u9pi29TZpmG-upa4Lu5HuEy4/edit?usp=sharing

#Linux#FOSS #fwupd#LVFS

🪙 LVFS Sustainability Plan

｢ This year there will be a fair-use quota introduced, with different sponsorship levels having a different quota allowance. Nothing currently happens if the quota is exceeded, although there will be additional warnings asking the vendor to contribute. The “associate” (free) quota is also generous, with 50,000 monthly downloads and 50 monthly uploads ｣

https://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2025/08/08/lvfs-sustainability-plan/

#lvfs #opensource #sustainability