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| Overview of Java Service Wrapper Licenses |
Overview of Java Service Wrapper Licenses
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The Java Service Wrapper is being put to use by a wide range of users for
a wide range of projects. Including corporate and government infrastracture
projects, buildling with commercial products and systems, and open source
projects.
The Wrapper is available under any one of three licenses making it possible
to choose to license most appropriate for a given project.
The full text of each license can be viewed by clicking on the license name.
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Community Software License Agreement:
This license agreement is the popular GPLv2 license used by many open
source projects. For open source projects this is a good choice as it allows
the Wrapper to be distributed as part of any application provided that all
source of the application is made available to the user base free of charge.
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Server Software License Agreement:
This license agreement is useful for users who wich to use the Wrapper on
one or more specific machines. It licenses the user to use multiple copies
of the Wrapper on a single machine.
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Development Software License Agreement:
Commercial users who wish to redistribute the Wrapper as part of a larger
application, and users who wish to distribute the Wrapper without being tied
to specific machines will find this license useful. License keys must be
provided for each specific application.
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If you are unsure which license is appropriate for your particular project please
read over the following examples.
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Q: I am a member of a team developing a popular open source project which may or
may not be used in commercial situations.
A: The Community Software License Agreement
will work fine in most cases as long as the entire application and all of
its components are distributed in such a way that the users of your
solution can easily obtain the full source of the entire application.
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Q: I would like to distribute the Wrapper with our proprietary application
to customers.
A: The Development Software License Agreement
will allow you to distribute the Wrapper with your application without any
restrictions on how you sell the resulting package.
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Q: I would like to distribute a modified version of the Wrapper with our proprietary
application to customers.
A: Currently only the Community Edition source is being made available for
modification. If it is at all possible, we encourage you to contrubute a
patch to the wrapper-user mailing list where it will be discussed. If it
fits the goals of the product suite, it will be included for all users to
make use of.
In cases where submitting a patch is not possible, the
Development Software License Agreement
will allow you to distribute the modified copy of the Wrapper with your
application without any restrictions on how you sell the resulting
package.
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