The history of open source has seen many different approaches to balancing an open source project and generating revenue. Dual licensing, proprietary update systems, membership dues, soliciting ...

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 ...

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 ...

Is software truly open source if you pay for additional features? Youranswer may depend on whether you side with the purists or the, ah,not-so-pure. A recent trend entering the debate involves the ...

Open source software company Grafana Labs has relicensed its core open source projects from the Apache Licence 2.0 to the Affero General Public Licence (AGPL) v3. The creator of Grafana Loki and Tempo ...

Why Redis Labs made a huge mistake when it changed its open source licensing strategy Your email has been sent No, Redis is not proprietary after Redis Labs introduced a tweak to its licensing ...

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. Open source grew, it proliferated… and it became something that many previously proprietary-only software vendors ...

The promise of open source is to make software tools free and open, yet some versions contain proprietary add-ons, licensing terms, or risks that must be vetted first. “We allow customers to ...

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Let the OSS Enterprise newsletter guide your open source journey! Sign up here. It’s difficult to overstate the role that open source plays in today’s technology-centric world, given that it ...

Full STEP and Fusion CAD files for the CORE One+ and CORE One L are now available on Printables under the new OCL license.