Latest Publications on Industry and Research
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Is AI killing open source?
tl;dr Nah, things keep changing, but if anything, AI only helps open source sharpen its profile as the way to go about collaboratively developing high-quality broadly-usable software. Those who were around twenty years ago may remember how folks were wondering whether the cloud was going to kill open source. How did this work out? It…
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The new coming relicensing scare?
What if commercial source-available vendors stopped licensing their product under their source-available license and only offered a traditional commercial license? In my current research interviews on commercial open source, two alternative intellectual property (IP) strategies are becoming visible: (1) Stay with open source and rely on trademarks, quality, and speed and (2) forego open source…
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Getting to win/win with a university TTO
Over on LinkedIn, Stef van Grieken complains, rightfully, about a ridiculous demand by a university technology transfer office (TTO). To agree to a licensing deal with Stef’s company, the unnamed TTO had requested a bi-directional rights grant of intellectual property (IP). That is, the university wanted to receive a license to the company’s IP in…
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Re-relicensing to open source explained
In March 2024, Redis removed the open source license of its popular in-memory database and added the SSPL-1.0 license, a non-open source license according to the Open Source Initiative, the steward of the open source definition. In April 2025, Redis reversed course and re-relicensed back to open source by adding the AGPL-3.0 license to its…
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A taxonomy of microservice integration techniques [INFSOF Journal]
Abstract Context Microservices have become an important architectural style for building robust and scalable software systems. A system’s functionality is split into independent units, the microservices, that communicate over a network and can be deployed independently. The shift of complexity into the integration layer necessitates enhanced collaboration among stakeholders, stressing the importance of effective communication.…
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The software bill of materials [Computer Magazine]
I’m happy to report that the 34th article in the open source column of IEEE Computer has been published. As always, please consider writing an article proposal! Title The Software Bill of Materials Keywords Bill Of Materials, Open Source Software, Software Supply Chain, […] Authors Dirk Riehle Publication Computer vol. 58, no. 4 (April 2025),…