You can not bundle OpenBD with your commercial application unless your commercial application is under a GPL compatible license. Read up on the GPL license at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html.
That is the reason why MySQL, Razuna, etc. offer commercial licenses to organizations that need or want to bundle the product with a commercial solution. Kind Regards, Nitai On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 3:19 AM, Adam Haskell <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 8:59 PM, G Allen R Souliere > <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> There may also be licensing concerns with distributing your app as a >>> package like this along with OpenBD if your app isn't GPL too. Talk with the >>> folks at NewAtlanta or AW2.0 to make sure. >>> >> >> Unless I am misunderstand the GPL, there is no issue with running the >> application for commercial uses, unless you change the source code of >> OpenBD. So, for instance, if I changed the actual code within OpenBD, I >> would have to provide the source code for those changes. However, there is >> no limitation to using OpenBD to run an application that you have developed, >> is there? > > GPL dictates what you can do with the source and how it can be packaged and > distributed. Being an engine there is some open to interpretation if you can > package/distribute OpenBD in a commercial software offering. Hopefully over > the next coming month(s) we can come out with some clarification and lessen > the ambiguity of the GPL license and protect OpenBD and ensure it's > opensourceness far into the future. > >> >> Second Question: Isn't OpenBD an open source project? Should it not have >> any ties to NewAtlanta? There isn't anything in its licence that ties it to >> New Atlanta anymore, is there? > > NA still licenses the OpenBD engine, thus if you wanted to distribute > BlueDragon, and the GPL license does not work, you want work with New > Atlanta on an OEM deal. I remember way back NA offered some > rather decent prices. I all honesty I think OpenBD can work for you in this > respect but as a fall back NA could help. > >> >> Third Question: What is AW2.0? :) > > > AW2.0 is the company that owns the copyright for OpenBD. Alan Williamson and > Andy Wu (and others if I recall) == AW2.0 > > Adam > > -- > Open BlueDragon Public Mailing List > http://www.openbluedragon.org/ http://twitter.com/OpenBlueDragon > mailing list - http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en > > !! save a network - please trim replies before posting !! -- See for yourself how easy it is to manage files today. Join the revolution! Razuna SaaS On-Demand - Hosted Digital Asset Management Solution http://www.razuna.com/ Razuna - Open Source Digital Asset Management http://www.razuna.org/ Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/razunahq -- Open BlueDragon Public Mailing List http://www.openbluedragon.org/ http://twitter.com/OpenBlueDragon mailing list - http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en !! save a network - please trim replies before posting !!
