Pentaho releases Pentaho Business Intelligence Platform under GPL

Pentaho Releases Pentaho Business Intelligence Platform Under GPL
License

 Leading Open Source BI Platform Now Available Under Version 2 of
World's Most Widely Used Open Source License

Orlando FL. - June 5, 2008 - 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 <http://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 <http://www.pentaho.com/> .

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