Shhhh! Kiloboot is currently in "stealth" mode. Our products are not yet announced. Here's what you can know:
We are building an Open Source product that will be dual-licensed, using
a business model somewhat similar to that of MySQL.
The product we're working on is of interest to any entity that operates
three or more server or desktop computers.
We are privately held.
Our CEO is
Bruce Perens.
The license used for the Open Source version of our product is GPL3, which is accepted by the Open Source Initiative as an OSI Certified Open Source license, and of course is accepted by the Free Software Foundation as Free Software. Since we understand the ethos of Free Software / Open Source, we don't add any terms to GPL3 or modify it in any way.
A commercial license is also available. It comes with support and other perks, and does not have terms of GPL3 that some businesses would prefer to avoid.
We require copyright assignment to accept modifications to our software. This is necessary so that we can vend a commercial license. Unlike almost everyone else who requires copyright assignment, we covenant with the developer to continue to make an Open Source version of their contribution available as long as we (or our assigns) continue to develop our commercial version. This provides a fair quid-pro-quo for the contributor. Of course, the main incentive for contributing a modification that you have made to our products is that we'll maintain it as part of our main code tree, and you won't have to.
You can read about our leadership and how to contact us.