---
title: "Lightbend Changes Akka License and Is No Longer Open Source"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/lightbend-changes-akka-license-and-is-no-longer-open-source-mthbeivmg
source_url: https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/09/akka-no-longer-open-source/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=global
type: article
source: "InfoQ"
published: 2022-09-20T08:01:48.540Z
updated: 2022-09-20T08:01:48.539Z
tags: ["open-source", "apache", "lightbend", "akka"]
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Lightbend Changes Akka License and Is No Longer Open Source

**[InfoQ](https://daily.dev/sources/infoq)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Lightbend Changes Akka License and Is No Longer Open Source Akka. Akka is a toolkit for writing concurrent distributed applications based on the actor model. The new license affects all companies with a revenue above 25 million dollars who wish to use the latest version of Akka.

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