There seems to be lots of confusion about the license that this is released under. Railo is being released under the LGPLv2, which is located here:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.html Let me highlight a few key sections that are important to CFML'ers: -------begin-excerpt------- 1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Library's complete source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty; and distribute a copy of this License along with the Library. You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, and you may at your option offer warranty protection in exchange for a fee. -------end-excerpt------- -- I've found that as a general rule regarding licenses that don't include specific conditions regarding hosting, the hosting will fall under the "distribution" category because you are essentially "distributing" this software to your hosting customers. I don't see anything in the above excerpt says nothing about forbidding you from including Railo along with your hosting accounts (that you probably already charge for). -------begin-excerpt------- 5: A program that contains no derivative of any portion of the Library, but is designed to work with the Library by being compiled or linked with it, is called a "work that uses the Library". Such a work, in isolation, is not a derivative work of the Library, and therefore falls outside the scope of this License. -------end-excerpt------- -- I personally view CFML code as "work that uses the Library" which will NOT be subject to the LGPL when you use Railo. Our CFML Code continues to be ours, and we can close-source it if we want to. I'd be interested to hear if anyone disagreed with my views on these issues. Warm regards, Jordan Michaels Vivio Technologies http://www.viviotech.net/ Open BlueDragon Steering Committee Adobe Solution Provider Gerald Guido wrote: > Go getcha some hot steamy OS CF 8(ish) action. > > http://www.getrailo.org/ > > G! > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:321153 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
