TEC Talks to OpenMFG: Free and Open Source Software Business Models

By Josh Chalifour

There's two different ways that we license software from the pricing perspective but the terms of the license — what you can do with the software and source code availability — are the same. Anyone who purchases the software from OpenMFG gets the full source code and under the terms of the OpenMFG license any changes they wish to make to the source code. . . they need to iterate with us and we, under the terms of the license, essentially take ownership of those changes and then have the prerogative to bring them back into the main release.