Although Elastic plans to make Elasticsearch and Kibana open source again in the "upcoming weeks," nothing is said about X-Pack, which will evidently continue to be only available under "fauxpen" licensing.
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Alongside the notification that Polaris Catalog has been made open source, Dremio announced that it is sharing Project Nessie's capabilities with Polaris.
According to a new survey, Oracle's been bleeding Java JDK customers since it got greedy with its pricing in 2023.
Redis is only the last in a line of companies that have lately dropped open-source licenses in favor of proprietary open-source lookalike licenses. In this case, a fork has already happened that just might end up being real competition for Redis.
DreamWorks first released its rendering platform as open-source under the name OpenMoonRay in March, 2023. Earlier this week the software received its first upgrade. These…
In this week's news roundup, our Christine Hall tells you what she thinks has gone wrong at Red Hat, and again tries to wrestle Elon Musk to the floor. In between, she covers some more of this week's FOSS news.
The Open Source Initiative is planning on making a few changes to how they do things. They think they've got it figured out, but first they want to know what you think.
Even though the Software Freedom Conservancy as crossed one major fundraising hurdle, additional funding is still needed -- so give what you can.
In a first-time ruling by Italian courts on open source licensing, a software vendor has lost a civil case for failing to comply with open source license requirements.
The San Francisco-based startup that's caught the eyes of VCs, to the tune of $181.2 million invested in less than a year, is also licensing its platform under the fauxpen source Elastic License.
Grrr: TechRepublic Headline References Fauxpen Licenses as ‘Open Source’
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An article in which our writer takes the competition to task for using the term "open source" in the headline to an article about "fauxpen source."