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[edit]- A business model for software whereby the core is open-source and free, while closed-source add-ons are available for purchase.
- 2018, Gordon Haff, How Open Source Ate Software […] , Apress, →ISBN, page 109:
- In part because the upsell features are often not clearly partitioned off from the core project, many open core products require their contributors to sign a contributor license agreement (CLA), which assigns rights to the commercial owner of the product.