Introducing “Business Source”: The Future of Corporate Open Source Licensing?

IntroductionOpen source is more than free software: it is a powerful tool that can be leveraged by companies to appropriate value (e.g., Carbone, 2007). Open source software is increasingly commercially developed and supported (Wheeler, 2009); in fact, a majority of open source development today is carried out by companies (Weiss, 2011). However, choosing to “go open source”