§ Documentary dossier
7 families
30+ concrete cases
~100 first-hand sources
Seven families, around a hundred sources.
The annexes are not to be signed. They document. Each case backs one or more of the thirteen theses of the manifesto.
Family 1
Licence flips
Cases that demonstrate that the free licence of an open source project is revocable when the project depends on a single sponsor.
Read the family →Theses illustrated
05 · 11 · 12
Family 2
Foundations under foreign jurisdiction
Cases that demonstrate that the governance of an open source project is legally anchored in the jurisdiction of the foundation hosting it.
Read the family →Theses illustrated
04 · 07
Family 3
Captive distribution chains
Cases that demonstrate that the use of free software does not prevent infrastructure dependency: registries, CDNs and forges are massively concentrated under foreign jurisdiction.
Read the family →Theses illustrated
06 · 07 · 11
Family 4
Contribution concentration
Cases that demonstrate that modern open source is dominated by salaried contributions from a few companies — foundation "neutrality" is a legal convention, not real independence.
Read the family →Theses illustrated
05 · 08 · 11
Family 5
Positive counter-examples
Cases that demonstrate that European open source sovereignty is possible: distributed projects, European foundations, structured public funding, alternative infrastructures.
Read the family →Theses illustrated
06 · 08 · 11 · 12
Family 6
Supply chain fragility
Cases that demonstrate that critical fragments of the world's digital infrastructure rest on a few unpaid volunteers — open does not mean safe; auditable does not mean audited.
Read the family →Theses illustrated
08 · 09 · 11
Family 7
The AI turn and the inversion of transparency
Cases that demonstrate that the arrival of artificial intelligence agents capable of auditing code at scale changes the historical equation of open source.
Read the family →Theses illustrated
09 · 10 · 11