Licensing

This page helps explain what are the requirements of the open source license. This page is a guide only, please consult the actual licenses for the governing terms. If you have questions, please consult the licensing FAQ or contact us at: licensing@mbedthis.com

AppWeb is provided under an open source license. The Open Source license is the GNU license governed by the provisions of the GPL license. For non-profits or educational institutions, the GPL license should be able to meet your needs. For evaluation purposes within a company, the GPL should be ideal. For commercial uses, we recommend a Commercial License. If you require a commercial license or commercial support for AppWeb, see Commercial License below or consult Mbedthis Software.

If you have any further questions, please read the licensing FAQ or contact us at licensing@mbedthis.com.

Open Source License

The AppWeb GPL license is ideal for internal use, evaluation and some cases of stand-alone use.

If your software is 100% GPL or is licensed under an Open Source License that is OSI approved and acceptable to Mbedthis Software, you may use Mbedthis products and embed them in your applications or devices. You do not need any other agreement or license -- the GPL is all you need.

AppWeb Download

With the download, you will receive binaries, source code, and documentation and you need not pay any license fees. You must however, abide by all the provisions of the GPL. These include (among other provisions) that if you redistribute your software and include AppWeb software within your application, you must provide your complete source code to all. If you do not wish to provide source code to your application, you may purchase a commercial license (see below for details).

Note that under the GPL license, you may develop, evaluate and embed Mbedthis software in your application or product provided it is not redistributed either internally or externally. You may copy and modify the source code provided all copies fall under the GPL license.

Redistribution

You may also redistribute Mbedthis products if you only use them in a stand-alone fashion as freestanding binaries without embedding them in your application. These redistributed copies remain under the GPL license.

Commercial License

If your application is linked with AppWeb and it is not provided to your customers under an approved open source license and you wish to redistribute your application, then you will need a commercial license. There are several good reasons to use a commercial license:

• You want the ability to redistribute your product including AppWeb
• You do not want to provide the source code to your application
• You need a warranty on the software from Mbedthis
• You do not want to run the risk of your organization's software falling under the governing terms of the GPL
• You want support
• You want priority notification of security issues and emergency patches

The Mbedthis Commercial license is such a commercial license.