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Activiti Licensing, how does it work?

sergiofigueras_ — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 22:36:35 GMT

Hi everyone,Sorry about that question, I'm a newbie about software licensing. I'm using some Activiti classes in my project, cause I saw that should be the more efficient way to render some content, like Activiti Process Forms, and other things.The question is very simple: and now? Where I need to g

Re: Activiti Licensing, how does it work?

trademak — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 08:26:07 GMT

We use the Apache 2.0 licensing for Activiti. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_License for more details.

Best regards,

Re: Activiti Licensing, how does it work?

sergiofigueras_ — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 18:58:11 GMT

Hi trademak,

Thanks for your answer. I know that Activiti uses Apache 2.0 license, but I just don't know what I need to do in my project to say that I'm using some Activiti components. Can you help me? What I need to do?

Regards,

Re: Activiti Licensing, how does it work?

jbarrez — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 12:33:01 GMT

Apache 2 is a very liberal licence. As such, you should do nothing. Even not an accredition.

Also, your source doesn't needs to be open source. Apache is basically: you can do whatever you want, we don't care 🙂

Re: Activiti Licensing, how does it work?

ronald_van_kuij — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 18:14:54 GMT

Almost… You have to keep the copyright notice in tact.

Re: Activiti Licensing, how does it work?

jbarrez — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 09:56:30 GMT

Ah, that's indeed true.

Thanks Ronald!