review,” and “legal and compliance sign-off.” (There has been CONTRIBUTION IS BECOMING minimal change in these statistics compared to 2021.) We MORE ACCEPTABLE BUT IS STILL also know that these processes are generally manual and time NOT OPENLY ENCOURAGED consuming and that more automation is needed. Financial As reported in the previous section, there has been significant institutions commonly require engineers to obtain pre-ap- growth in openly encouraging open source consumption proval before making any external open source contributions, in the last year. As FIGURE 18 shows, there has also been a which can take weeks or even months. Some organizations positive shift in policies related to open source contribution, have policies that prohibit open source contribution from notably a 75% increase (20% in 2021 to 35% in 2022) in contri- work devices, although contribution may be allowed outside bution being permitted under some circumstances as well as of the workplace provided the open source project uses a a 70% decrease in the percentage of firms that do not permit license that meets established license requirements. contribution (6% in 2022 from 20% in 2021). FIGURE 18 Organizational policy on contributing to open source projects in 2022 and 2021 What statement is closest to your current organization’s policy on contributing to open source projects? (select one) No clear policy (allowed anytime 2021) 14% 15% Contribution is not permitted 6% (not allowed when work related 2021) 20% Contribution is permitted under some 35% conditions (permission based 2021) 20% Contribution is permitted if it is 15% required by the open source license 11% (job requires active participation 2021) 30% Contribution is openly encouraged 34% 2022 2021 2022 FINOS STATE OF OSS IN FINANCIAL SERVICES SURVEY, Q20, SAMPLE SIZE = 203 2021 FINOS STATE OF OSS IN FINANCIAL SERVICES SURVEY, Q35, SAMPLE SIZE = 98 THE 2022 STATE OF OPEN SOURCE IN FINANCIAL SERVICES 28