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Open Source Licensing Nirvana

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Roberto Galoppini
on February 18, 2010
in Commercial OSS and Licenses
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Over the last weeks Alfresco, Sonatype and WaveMaker made their own decisions about licensing.

Alfresco went LGPL, Sonatype - a company with a strong Apache background - for the very first time decided to release some code under GPL, while WaveMaker dumping the AGPL in favor of Apache.

Let’s have a closer look at how - and if - these changes reflect new business directions.

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Open Source ECM: Alfresco Business Strategy

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Roberto Galoppini
on May 16, 2009
in Commercial OSS and Open Business Models
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Alfresco meetup for community and customers took place here in Rome two weeks ago, featuring both John Newton and John Powell, respectively Alfresco CTO and CEO.

I asked few questions to John Powell, learning more about Alfresco licensing story, and about differences between Alfresco Enterprise Edition and Alfresco Labs.

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Roberto Galoppini on Open Source Software
I am a specialist in Commercial Open Source Software, consulting on marketing and business strategy. I help organizations to build new business strategies for the open source economy. I speak widely on open source and open standards throughout the world.