Category: 1.2 Open Source (Industry)

  • How open source licenses increase or curtail reach of the software

    How open source licenses increase or curtail reach of the software

    Relicensing from a permissive to a copyleft license curtails the potential reach of the open-source software, while relicensing from a copyleft to a permissive license increases its potential reach. In the abstract, this is easy to see: Having less requirements on the use of the software allows more uses and hence increases reach. The confusion,…

  • Finding the Right Scope for Open Source Development (Nettsträter & Brehler, IEEE Computer)

    Finding the Right Scope for Open Source Development (Nettsträter & Brehler, IEEE Computer)

    I’m happy to report that the 27th article in the Open Source Expanded column of IEEE Computer has been published. Title How to find the right scope for open source developments? Keywords Open Source Software, Stakeholders, Heterogeneous Networks, Software Development Management, Market Research, Business, Competitive Intelligence, Interoperability, Management Authors Andreas Nettsträter, Marius Brehler Publication Computer…

  • The future of the open source definition [Computer Magazine]

    The future of the open source definition [Computer Magazine]

    I’m happy to report that the 26th article in the Open Source Expanded column of IEEE Computer has been published. Title The Future of the Open Source Definition Keywords Open source definition Authors Dirk Riehle Publication Computer vol. 56, no. 12 (December 2023), pp 95-99 Abstract: Many forces pull to change the definitions of what…

  • Should open source projects denounce users who aren’t donating money?

    Should open source projects denounce users who aren’t donating money?

    Right now, the top blog post on the OpenCV website (an open source library for computer vision and machine learning) is about how Snap Inc. uses OpenCV in its products (and presumably makes a lot of money partly thanks to it) but does not donate at all to the project. The blog post promises to…

  • Will open source fix the public cloud vendor lock-in?

    Will open source fix the public cloud vendor lock-in?

    Over on Twi… what-shall-not-be-named, Kelsey Hightower argued that companies want on-premise back and that this is happening by on-premise product vendors copying cloud APIs in their products: It might just turn out that the cloud was the best way to research and design better ways of managing our systems, and thanks to the open source…

  • Let’s celebrate relicensing from an open source to a proprietary license

    Let’s celebrate relicensing from an open source to a proprietary license

    tl;dr Commercial open source firms are beneficial to society, even if they eventually license away from open source, because they are exploring a search space for useful open-source software that is otherwise hard to get to. Commercial open source firms that license away from open source licenses to non-compete licenses don’t get a lot of…