It’s sometimes been said that the GPL is the best license for building an open source business. The reasoning is straightforward: The GPL has a reciprocal property such that those who embed and ...

2007 is shaping up to be a banner year for open source companies. SourceForge, which hosts almost 160,000 projects, just posted fiscal year 2007 revenues that showed a hefty 35 percent increase over ...

Open-source software sits at the core of nearly every business model. According to estimates from The Linux Foundation and Intel, 80-90% of modern application code is built using a mix of open-source ...

Karen Copenhaver, a partner at Choate Hall & Stewart LLP, and one of Mass High Tech’s 2008 All-Stars, is an expert on technology licensing, particularly in software licensing and open source. Recently ...

Open source is crucial for the longevity and security of software systems. The future of popular databases is firmly rooted in open source. Open source is indispensable for infrastructure software ...

As companies grapple with the challenge of developing a sustainable business without sacrificing their core principles, open source has evolved from a niche approach to software development into the ...

In this special guest feature, Peter Zaitsev, Co-founder and CEO of Percona, addresses a hot topic due to the public debate on the long term viability of the open source business model that started ...