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Publicly verifiable analyses of software economics, portability, automation and self-controlled infrastructure.

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7 flagship reports · open datasets · traceable methodology · versioned corrections

Methodology Corrections and versions
published reports
7
numbered sources
233
open datasets
33
data cutoff
29 July 2026

How this series came about

These issues were worked on over several months. Data collection, modelling, source checking and review take time, which is why they are not released one by one but as a complete series. All issues listed here were released together on 29 July 2026. From here on the series continues on a rolling basis.

The month in an issue name marks its place in the series, not its release date. Both are stated separately on every report page, together with the data cutoff and the version, and the same applies to the machine-readable metadata. There are no backdated values.

A documentation score measures publicly findable documentation. It is not a compliance, security or quality statement. Missing information means "not documented", not "does not exist".

Sorted by edition month, newest issue first. The series reads from the most recent question backwards; the real first publication date is on every card.

FDR-2026-06 Software Supply Risk Edition June 2026

Source-Available License & Governance Risk Report 2026

FW Delta examines license changes, governance, patch continuity and fork capability of critical infrastructure components and delivers an operational License Bill of Materials.

First published
29 July 2026
Data cutoff
29 July 2026
Methodology
weighted license/governance risk index plus case studies, timeline and LBOM
Objects examined
6 ecosystems; 7 risk dimensions; 11 timeline events; 6 fork capabilities

Key findings

  • OBSERVED Several infrastructure-relevant projects changed their license or added new license options in recent years; this gave rise to forks, new foundation models and altered procurement decisions.
  • CALCULATED In the disclosed model, CockroachDB 24.3+ reaches 72/100, MongoDB Community Server 63/100, Terraform/HashiCorp BSL 45/100, the MariaDB BSL reference model 42/100, Redis 38/100 and Elasticsearch 26/100. Higher means more modeled procurement risk, not worse software.
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Research standard and methodology

Statement classes, source hierarchy, score standard, handling of missing information, price and currency rules, rounding and conflict of interest.

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Corrections and versions

Version policy, correction log, reporting route for factual errors and the current version status of every issue.

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