>Be careful. Apache software isn't totally free. You should read the
>licensing agreement.
Just reading through the licence for the various bits now ... there seem
to be 3 sources that Jetspeed comes from, Apache, Working Dogs and
Exolab ...
If I read these correctly ...
(Castor) Exolab licence implies it's basically free (BSD style licence) so long
as copyright notices are included.
(Apache Server, JServ, Jetspeed, Xalan, Xerces, Cocoon, Turbine, ECS) Apache
licence implies it's free to use, but must include a copyright for Apache (although
the turbine page doesn't have a link to the LICENCE.TXT file, it's in the docs
directory)
2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in
the documentation and/or other materials provided with the
distribution.
3. The end-user documentation included with the redistribution,
if any, must include the following acknowledgment:
"This product includes software developed by the
Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/)."
Alternately, this acknowledgment may appear in the software itself,
if and wherever such third-party acknowledgments normally appear.
(Village) Working-dogs - after a bit of looking around, and
finally finding it in the CVS puddle, it looks exactly the same
as the apache one, except it says Working-dogs instead
of Apache.
In all of these licence documents, there is no mention of
re-licencing the software on for profit, nor a restriction to do so.
But the client who I licence it on to, must be under the
same conditions I am, in regards to branding and
ownership.
So it might be free, in the commercail transaction, but not
free in the sense of "in the public domain" free. I, and those
I develop for are still under the requirement of ownership of the
software. that is, I don't own it, Working dogs/Exolab and Apache
do ...
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