ORLANDO, FL -- 06/05/08 --
Pentaho Corp., the commercial open source
alternative for business intelligence (BI), today announced that its
current version 2 alpha release of the Pentaho BI Platform, as well as
future versions, will be distributed under the terms of the GNU General
Public License Version 2 (GPLv2). GPLv2 is a software license published by
the Free Software Foundation. Pentaho will also provide a "FLOSS
Exception," which simplifies distribution of Pentaho BI Platform with
certain other open source licenses approved by the Open Source Initiative
(
www.opensource.org). The Pentaho BI Platform is the underlying
infrastructure that provides integration of Pentaho's reporting, analysis,
dashboard, data integration, and data mining capabilities into the Pentaho
Open BI Suite.
The GPL is the most widely used open source software license. Currently,
more than 60% of open source projects tracked on freshmeat.org are
GPL-licensed. The GPL is well understood by the market and the legal
community and has notable precedents such as MySQL, Java and the Linux
kernel as GPL licensed projects. Because the GPL is what's known as a
"reciprocal license" it ensures that the software is open and remains open.
An FAQ providing additional specifics is available at
http://community.pentaho.com/faq/platform_licensing.php.
About Pentaho
Pentaho Corporation is the commercial open source alternative for Business
Intelligence (BI). Pentaho Open BI Suite provides comprehensive reporting,
OLAP analysis, dashboards, data integration, data mining and a BI platform
that have made it the world's leading and most widely deployed open source
BI suite. Pentaho's commercial open source business model eliminates
software license fees, providing support, services, and product
enhancements via an annual subscription. In the years since Pentaho's
inception as the pioneer in commercial open source BI, Pentaho's products
have been downloaded more than three million times, with production
deployments at companies ranging from small organizations to The Global
2000. For more information, visit www.pentaho.com.
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