Offering your software product under an open-source software (OSS) license has its advantages. By making the source code of your product available for redistribution and modification, and in many ...

With the perennial tensions between proprietary and open source software (OSS) unlikely to end anytime soon, a $3 billion startup is throwing its weight behind a new licensing paradigm — one that’s ...

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Cockroach Labs Inc., the company behind the distributed SQL database CockroachDB, is changing its licensing model to better align with the evolving needs of its customer base. The new licensing ...

Repeat after me and "="" brasseur"="">, well-known open-source business strategist: "Open source is not a business model." It's a software development model that can be used as part of many business ...

Cloud-native microservices platform Lightbend wants open-source licensing to better meet developers’ needs and is doing something to make that happen. However, the replacement fix is not a traditional ...

The term “open core” essentially means that the heart of a software project is built on, and remains, open source but added features may not be (particularly a commercial version intended for ...

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Matt Aslett had a great post about defining an “open source vendor” earlier this week. The post was in response to OpenNMS CEO Tarus Balog, who didn’t agree with Matt’s use of the term “open source ...