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Startups Are Going 'Fair Source' To Avoid Pitfalls of Open Source Licensing
Tuesday September 24, 2024. 02:10 AM , from Slashdot
'Open source isn't a business model -- open source is a distribution model, it's a software development model, primarily,' Chad Whitacre, Sentry's head of open source, told TechCrunch. 'And in fact, it places severe limits on what business models are available, because of the licensing terms.' Sure, there are hugely successful open source projects, but they are generally components of larger proprietary products. Businesses that have flown the open source flag have mostly retreated to protect their hard work, moving either from fully permissive to a more restrictive 'copyleft' license, as the likes of Element did last year and Grafana before it, or ditched open source altogether as HashiCorp did with Terraform. 'Most of the world's software is still closed source,' Whitacre added. 'Kubernetes is open source, but Google Search is closed. React is open source, but Facebook Newsfeed is closed. With fair source, we're carving a space for companies to safely share not just these lower-level infrastructure components, but share access to their core product.' Further reading: As Companies Try 'Open Source Rug Pull', Open Source Foundations Considered Helpful Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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