LXer: Pentaho Releases Business Intelligence Platform Under GPL License
 

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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.

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