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Clearing Up the Fog

Hello everyone! We want to talk about our licensing situation and our plan regarding it. Let’s dive in!

# What licensing situation?

If you don’t know, Solus started its life as Evolve OS. Due to a trademark dispute, the name was then changed to Solus. More than 10 years passed, and Solus is still here. During its life, the development of Solus and its related projects has happened in various places. They have included IRC, Matrix, Github, and Phabricator, to name a few.

Clean, clean, clean!

Hello everyone! Alfi here, member of Solus Cleanup Crew. It’s been more than a year since I started contributing to Solus and I want to talk about it. About what I did, what we did, what we accomplished so far, and what we want to do next.

# A bit of background

I started contributing in October 2023, when Solus participated in Hacktoberfest. Hacktoberfest is a month-long event that encourage people to contribute to open source project in exchange for some digital merchandise. Finally, an excuse to contribute to something I use every day. Although, as an accountant, all of this is new experience to me. It was confusing at first, but I persisted. Finally, I got the hang of it and I managed to submit around 100 pull request during the month of the event. I was very excited and motivated. During the month, a few people joined the event and contributed to Solus, but then November came and most of the contribution slowed down. I was the only one left that continued doing the beginner tasks, mostly adding homepage to packages.