If you don’t accept the options offered by the community contribution model of development, then you risk becoming a Proprietary 2.0 behemoth… or so the T-shirt slogan might go. But the issue of how open source software is licenced is still the stuff of some debate.
Chief operating officer (COO) for GitHub is Erica Brescia. Brescia has pointed out that the industry is witnessing rising levels of tension between open source projects (and open source development shops) and those commercially motivated organizations that are building services on top of open source, such as cloud vendors with their database services. So how do we move forward with open source?
[Source: ComputerWeekly.com]
