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With Functional Source License, Sentry wants to grant developers freedom ‘without harmful free-riding’

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By Paul Sawers

November 20, 2023

With Functional Source License, Sentry wants to grant developers freedom ‘without harmful free-riding’

With Functional Source License, Sentry wants to grant developers freedom ‘without harmful free-riding’

Yet another software license is vying for the attentions of SaaS companies seeking to align themselves with the open source realm, without compromising their commercial endeavors. Sentry, an app performance monitoring (APM) company that helps companies such as Disney, Microsoft, and Cisco track and resolve laggy or buggy applications, has transitioned its core product to […]

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