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The Covenant - a New Open Source Strategy

Posted by samzenpus on from the a-modest-proposal dept.

Bruce Perens writes "Lexis Nexis has Open Sourced HPCC, the parallel software that they use for handling extremely large data. Databases that, for example, hold records for every consumer in the U.S. can be processed with this software and its task-specific language. As Strategic Consultant for the company while they decided to participate in Open Source, Open Source co-founder Bruce Perens designed a new Covenant between Lexis Nexis and the Open Source community that makes dual-licensing more fair to the Open Source developer."

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  1. Re:Bruce Perens dissing Free Software by Bruce+Perens · · Score: 4, Informative

    So this is fuel on the old discussion between "Open Source" (Bruce Perens et al) and Free Software (RMS et al)?

    Hi AC,

    Since I did advise Lexis Nexis to use the Affero GPL 3.0, a license of the Free Software Foundation, and they have done so, I think this should not be considered as "dissing free software" :-)

    And yes, it really is ironic that GPL can be used to drive commercial development and that people will pay you for the right to not be under the GPL terms. But this is not dissing free software, it's commenting on the economic paths that it creates.

    --
    Bruce Perens.