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Licensing Guidelines

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Free for learning, development and testing
Commercial license is required for production environment
For distributing IT Mill Toolkit as a part of your own - product, either purchase suitable commercial deployment licenses or - contact us for OEM-license tailored for your needs.

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Free use

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Application development is complitely free. Furthermore, you can deploy - the developed application for testing and validation at the development time.

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Commercial use

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A commercial license must be obtained for production use of the - applications that use IT Mill Toolkit libraries.

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A deployment license is required for each deployed copy of a program - that uses Toolkit library. To be more exact, each Java Virtual - Machine (JVM) that runs a program that uses IT Mill Toolkit libraries, must have an - unique deployment license. For example, if the program is - deployed to multiple servers (for load balancing or other reasons), each - server needs an unique license.

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If the number of server installations is so high that separate deployment - licenses are not an option, please contact sales - to hear about OEM licensing options.

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Purchasing Commercial License

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Deployment licenses can be purchased online from IT Mill Ltd.

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If you are interested in OEM-license for your product, please - contact sales at IT Mill Ltd.

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License terms

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The actual legal license text is in license.pdf.

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License files

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Technically license is stored as itmill-toolkit-license.xml -file, that is usually - store in WEB-INF -directory of the web-application. The license file - contains information about the scope and limitations of the license in fairly readable - form, so you might want to check the file contents. Toolkit package is shipped with - unlimited license for development and testing purposes.

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Free unlimited development license - license-file is included in product package in - lib -directory

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Open Source Edition

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The previous version 3 of the product was called Millstone User Interface Library. - Millstone library was licensed with very liberal LGPL-license. The latest free release of - Millstone User Interface Library (version 3.1) can still be found from sourceforge.

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The new version 4 of the library, now called IT Mill Toolkit, is not licensed with - an open source license. This does not mean that the sources are closed, source code is - included in the product package for your convenience.

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Why did we change the license? Putting a clear transparent pricing model on the - product makes our customers decision-making easier. They know how much they are - paying for and that they can expect commercial grade quality product for their money.

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Educational use

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If you want to use the IT Mill Toolkit for teaching programming, web - development or user interface design, you can apply for educational - license by contacting sales at IT - Mill Ltd.

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