Open source biz shifts Akka to Business Source License

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Open source biz sick of FOSS community exploitation overhauls software rights

Lightbend is fed up with commercial entities using its open source wares in production environments and giving nothing back to the FOSS community, so is making an alteration to the licensing of a popular product.

It"provided an ideal programming model for cloud computing years before it was even on most companies' radar" said Bonér, claiming that industry has since played catchup to the software's"reactive principles of design." "In the infrastructure space, much of the open source software is now created by companies, from small startups innovating and challenging the status quo, to large enterprises seeing open source as a great way to attract talent and build communities around their brands.

He said it is a"very liberal license well suited for early, small open source projects establishing community. It essentially gives users the right to do whatever they want without any restrictions or obligations to contribute back to the community and the project from which they benefit.."

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