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FOSS licenses. [edit] FOSS stands for "Free and Open Source Software". There is no one universally agreed-upon definition of FOSS software and various groups maintain approved lists of licenses. The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is one such organization keeping a list of open-source licenses. [ 1 ] The Free Software Foundation (FSF) maintains a ...
Popular open source licenses include the Apache License, the MIT License, the GNU General Public License (GPL), the BSD Licenses, the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) and the Mozilla Public License (MPL). Open-source licenses are software licenses that allow content to be used, modified, and shared. They facilitate free and open-source ...
NoSQL. NoSQL (originally referring to "non- SQL " or "non-relational") [1] is an approach to database design that focuses on providing a mechanism for storage and retrieval of data that is modeled in means other than the tabular relations used in relational databases. Instead of the typical tabular structure of a relational database, NoSQL ...
An early example of an open-source project that did successfully re-license for license compatibility reasons is the Mozilla project and their Firefox browser. The source code of Netscape's Communicator 4.0 browser was originally released in 1998 under the Netscape Public License/Mozilla Public License [6] but was criticised by the FSF and OSI for being incompatible.
According to computer scientist Eric Brewer of the University of California, Berkeley, the theorem first appeared in autumn 1998. [10] It was published as the CAP principle in 1999 [11] and presented as a conjecture by Brewer at the 2000 Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC). [12]
FoundationDB. FoundationDB is a free and open-source multi-model distributed NoSQL database developed by Apple Inc. with a shared-nothing architecture. [3] The product was designed around a "core" database, with additional features supplied in "layers." [4] The core database exposes an ordered key–value store with transactions. [5]
Sybase Open Watcom Public License. Released as Open Watcom, under a license which is considered free by the OSI [68] but not by the FSF. The FSF has problems with the license as it demands more freedom than the GPL by requiring the release of source code also in the case of private use. [69] Xerox Alto.
cassandra.apache.org. Apache Cassandra is a free and open-source, distributed, wide-column store, NoSQL, database management system designed to handle large amounts of data across multiple commodity servers, providing availability with no single point of failure. Cassandra supports clusters and spanning of multiple data centers [ 2 ] with ...