Sorry Barney you're absolutely right - there still are licenses, just no license fees.
Toby On 01/04/2009, at 10:44 AM, Barney Boisvert wrote: > > Before we get WAY out of hand, reading and actually understanding the > licenses in question would be a good thing to do. Both the GPL and > LGPL are "activated" by distribution. What distribution means is a > grey area, and I have no comment on that particular aspect. But if > you don't distribute (again subject to the grey definition), the viral > nature of the licenses is irrelevant. > > Tony - there are definitely license involved. You just don't have to > pay money to Railo (or JBoss, or whomever) in order to get one. > You're still subject to the terms of the license regardless of any > money that changes hands. That license (the LGPL) places restrictions > on what you can and cannot do with the software. It's not a orgy of > freedom for everyone, it's just that there isn't a monetary component > to the license agreements. > > cheers, > barneyb > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Toby Tremayne > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> From here on railo is completely open source - it's free to download >> and use for commercial or non commercial purposes. There are no >> licenses involved - you can even use railo to deploy your application >> as a wrapped java app including the railo engine for single file >> deployment, all without paying for anything :) >> >> Toby >> On 01/04/2009, at 9:52 AM, Claude Schneegans wrote: >> >>> >>> I think it wasn't free before. >>> >>> Can the free version be used commercially ? >>> Or is the soft free, but you have to buy licenses? ;-) >>> >>> >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:321147 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
