Licence changes, open washing and forking are central discussions in open source and its commercialisation. Amanda Brock writes a major overview of forking for TheNewStack.

OpenUK started the Labour Party Conference off by bringing the right people’s voices into the room, but as always the concern of the small players is that these are so easily drowned out and overlooked as the week progresses with other conversations on AI but nobody else focusing on data centres.

Amanda Brock talks about how Valkey fork highlights the error of relying on open source as a business model.

CEO Amanda Brock says that while it’s “great to see people simply being honest that [their software] is not open source,” this new category of license might just complicate matters — particularly as there are already well-established names for this kind of software.Within open source, we call the category that is proprietary with source that

“Open source as a digital public good needs government funding ” says Amanda Brick, Kelsey Hightower and Peter Zaitsev

Amanda Brock reacts to Percona’s report that 70% of Redis users are looking at alternatives and in particular the Linux Foundation hosted Valkey fork.

The challenge of the usage of the term “open source” in the context of AI is explored by The New Stack with CEO Amanda Brock raising concerns that a second definition may risk undermining the Open Source Software Definition.