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| author | Joonas Lehtinen <joonas.lehtinen@itmill.com> | 2006-12-27 16:45:24 +0000 |
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| committer | Joonas Lehtinen <joonas.lehtinen@itmill.com> | 2006-12-27 16:45:24 +0000 |
| commit | f902b20c22485fd2371b5b2e2aacba4bcae850d8 (patch) | |
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diff --git a/licensing-guidelines.html b/licensing-guidelines.html index f28e590a07..bebfd8d907 100644 --- a/licensing-guidelines.html +++ b/licensing-guidelines.html @@ -5,46 +5,44 @@ </head> <body> -<b><pre>[ DRAFTING - 1.10.2006 Joonas ]</pre></b> +<h1>IT Mill Toolkit - Licensing Guidelines</h1> -<h1>Millstone Licensing Guidelines</h1> - -Millstone follows the following rules of thumb for its licensing: +Licensing in nutshell: <ul> <li>Free for learning, development and testing</li> - <li>Commercial deployment license is required for deploying any - program that uses Millstone libraries to production use</li> - <li>For distributing Millstone libraries as a part of your own - product, there is two alternatives: - <li>Purchasing commercial deployment licenses for each deployed - copy of the product.</li> - <li>If you plan to deploy at least 5 copies of the product, you - can contact IT Mill Ltd for OEM-license tailored for your products - needs.</li> + <li>Free for small production deployments (max 4 concurrent active users per server)</li> + <li>Commercial license is required for larger production environment</li> + <li>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.</li> </ul> -<h3>When I can use Millstone for free?</h3> +<h3>When I can use IT Mill Toolkit for free?</h3> + +<p>Application development is complitely free. Furthermore, you can deploy +the developed application for testing and validation at the development time.</p> + +<p>You can obtain a free license for production use in small workgroups from +<a href="http://www.itmill.com/">IT Mill License store</a>. This license +covers use of 4 active users concurrently +using the application in one server.</p> -Development of applications and products using Millstone tools and -libraries is complitely free. Furthermore, you can deploy the developed -program for testing and validation at the development time. Any -production (or real) use of the deployed program with Millstone -libraries requires commercial deployment license. +<h3>When I must obtain a commercial license?</h3> -<h3>When I must obtain a commercial license for Millstone</h3> +<p>A commercial license must be obtained for production use of the +applications that use IT Mill Toolkit libraries. Free and low-cost license +alternatives for limited number of concurrent users are available.</p> -A deployment license is required for each deployed copy of a program +<p>A deployment license is required for each deployed copy of a program that uses Millstone libraries. To be more exact, each Java Virtual -Machine (JVM) that runs a program that uses Millstone libraries, must an -unique commercial deployment license. For example, if the program is +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. Deployment for testing the program -during development phase is permitted without a license if the deployed -program is not used for any production or real use. +server needs an unique license.</p> <h2>Purchasing Commercial License</h2> -<p>Millstone deployment licenses can be purchased online from <a +<p>Deployment licenses can be purchased online from <a href="http://www.itmill.com/">IT Mill Ltd</a>.</p> <p>If you are interested in OEM-license for your product, please @@ -52,18 +50,30 @@ contact sales at <a href="http://www.itmill.com/">IT Mill Ltd</a>.</p> <h2>License terms</h2> -<p>The actual license text is in <a href="mcl.txt">mcl.txt</a>.</p> +<p>The actual legal license text is in <a href="license.txt">license.txt</a>.</p> + +<h2>License files?</h2> + +<p>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 lisence 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.</p> + +<h2>Open Source Edition?</h2> -<h2>Free Open Source Edition?</h2> +<p>The previous version 3 of the product was called Millstone User Interface Library. +Millstone library was licensed with very liberal LGPL-license. The new version 4 of +the library, is not licensed with open source license. The latest free release of +Millstone User Interface Library (version 3.1) can still be found from sourceforge.</p> -<p>The previous version 3 of Millstone library was licensed with -LGPL-license. The new AJAX edition of the library, version 4, is only -licensed with commercial license. The latest free release (version 3.1) -can still be found from sourceforge.</p> +<p>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 what whey get for their money.</p> <h2>Educational use</h2> -<p>If you want to use Millstone for teaching programming, web +<p>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 <a href="http://www.itmill.com/">IT Mill Ltd</a>.</p> |