Most software is distributed under a license, which means there are certain things that you are legally permitted (and not permitted) to do with the software and source code.
Baseform's software includes both proprietary and open-source components, and we do not think that all the tools that can exist around our platform will have to be bound to the same license. There are already different licenses on libraries used by Baseform tools — on every tool and app, we state its exact license and the licenses of any libraries used.
About the GNU General Public License
The GNU General Public License, or GPL, is an open-source license. Open-source doesn't just mean that you can view the source code — it has a broader philosophical implication. 'Free' is not a statement related to price; rather, it refers to certain freedoms, namely: freedom to run the software, freedom to study how it works, freedom to try changing it and freedom to share within certain limits, namely keeping any derived works under the same type of licensing.This means that you cannot profit directly from the work or from maintaining the attribution and integrity of the existing license. The difference between the two is often compared to the distinction between 'free as in speech' vs. 'free as in beer' — GPL is free as in speech. To find out more:
- GNU definition of free software
- Who's using free software (from free software foundation)
- Open Source Initiative
- Open Source Initiative GPL3.0 page
- The text version of GPL 3.0 license.
Baseform's open source code is made available on GitHub: go to github.com/Baseform/.
Detailed third-party open-source licensing
Ashwood
http://www.objectstyle.com/
Apache Software License, Version 2.0 - http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Apache Cayenne
http://cayenne.apache.org/
Apache Software License, Version 2.0 - http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Apache Commons
http://commons.apache.org/
Apache Software License, Version 2.0 - http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Apache Log4J
http://logging.apache.org/log4j
Apache Software License, Version 2.0 - http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Apache POI "Poor Obfuscation Implementation"
http://poi.apache.org/
Apache Software License, Version 2.0 - http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Apache XML Beans
http://xmlbeans.apache.org/
Apache Software License, Version 2.0 - http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Dom4J
http://dom4j.sourceforge.net
BSD - http://dom4j.sourceforge.net/dom4j-1.6.1/license.html
GeoTools
http://www.geotools.org/
LGPL - http://svn.osgeo.org/geotools/trunk/licenses/GeoTools.html
H2 Database
http://www.h2database.com/
H2 License - http://www.h2database.com/html/license.html
[dual licensed and available under a modified version of the MPL 1.1 (Mozilla Public License)
or under the (unmodified) EPL 1.0 (Eclipse Public License)]
Jettison - A JSON StAX Implementation
http://jettison.codehaus.org/
Apache Software License, Version 2.0 - http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Jetty Web Server
http://jetty.codehaus.org
Apache Software License, Version 2.0 - http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
VPP - Velocity Template Engine
http://vpp.sourceforge.net/
BSD license - http://vpp.sourceforge.net/LICENSE
XML Pull Parser (XPP)
http://www.extreme.indiana.edu/xgws/xsoap/xpp/
Indiana University Extreme! Lab Software License
XStream
http://xstream.codehaus.org/
BSD license - http://xstream.codehaus.org/license.html
Addition CayWeb
http://www.addition.pt
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
Addition Reports 2.0
http://www.addition.pt
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
Addition User Interface 2.0 - AddUI2
http://www.addition.pt/addui
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
jQuery JavaScript Library
http://jquery.com/
Dual: MIT or GPL Version 2 - http://jquery.org/license
OpenLayers.js - OpenLayers Map Viewer Library
http://openlayers.org
FreeBSD license. Please see http://svn.openlayers.org/trunk/openlayers/license.txt
Raphaël and g.Raphael - JavaScript Library
http://raphaeljs.com/
MIT license - http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
Yahoo YUI Calendar
http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/calendar/
http://yuilibrary.com/license/