InfoWorld: Pentaho opens up further (Exhibit B to real MPL)

Matthew Flaschen matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu
Tue Jan 30 15:51:44 UTC 2007


Rick Moen wrote:
> What _was_ the nature of that change?  http://swik.net/Mondrian?page=2 
> describes it:
>    
>   ==============================================================
>   Pentaho Changes Platform License to Mozilla Public License, Version 1.1
>   ==============================================================
> 
>   As of our 1.1.5 Milestone release of the Pentaho BI Suite, we have
>   officially switched our licensing from the Pentaho Public License to the
>   Mozilla Public License, version 1.1. The decision to change the
>   licensing was driven by input from the development community along with
>   our strong belief in being true open source contributors.
> 
> (Downloading Pentaho BI v. 1.2's tarball and checking source verifies this.)

I think they've also relicensed certain wholly proprietary (not even
MPL+B) components as open source.

Matthew Flaschen

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