License question of JBPM designer

[florianpirchner]

Hi,

i got a question about the JBPM designer. I would like to embedd the jbpm standalone designer in a vaadin UI. The final open source project is licensed under the EPL (Eclipse Public License).

For now i am confused about the licenses used in designer. As i could see the designer is licensed under the APLv2. But internally it uses the Oryx which seems to be licensed under the GPLv3 now. I also found out, that the version of Oryx that is used was forked before the license changed to GPLv3. Could not find any hint in the oryx.js about GPL.

But in the jbpm-designer-standalone project i found a LICENSE file with following content:

  * The license and the source files can be found in our SVN repository at:

* http://oryx-editor.googlecode.com/.

And http://oryx-editor.googlecode.com points to GPLv3.

My question: May i savely (without any license violations) embed the designer into my EPL project? EPL and APLv2 are compatible.

Thanks a lot,

Florian

[tsurdilovic]

Yes you can do that. You can also find more info here: https://github.com/droolsjbpm/jbpm-designer/blob/master/jbpm-designer-standalone/src/main/resources/META-INF/LICENSE.

All source code of jBPM Designer can be located on github: https://github.com/droolsjbpm/jbpm-designer

HTH

[anaghan]

Hi

I am new to jBPM and want to use jBPM as execution engine.We dont want to use jBPM designer .Would like to know under which licensing terms it come (APL of GPL ?)

[florianpirchner]

Hi,

The Licensefile was exactly what me made carefully.

I can read there:

  * The license and the source files can be found in our SVN repository at:

* http://oryx-editor.googlecode.com/.

And http://oryx-editor.googlecode.com points to GPLv3. So i am afraid from getting 3rd party GPL dependencies.

I could also find, that jbpm followed the instructions at oryx website to get an OEM-partnership with signavio. http://www.signavio.com/de/partner/oem-partner/

Entry from orxy website:

The main developers behind the Oryx project have founded Signavio in May 2009. Signavio offers a commercial SaaS platform for business process modeling as well as a free BPMN editor for academic use.

As the manpower of Hasso-Plattner-Institute has faded significantly over the past years, maintenance of the Oryx code is no longer guaranteed. Therefore, companies thinking about integrating a BPMN modeler into their own product are highly encouraged to rather go for OEM integrations with the Signavio code base.

Thanks, Florian

[florianpirchner]

I checked the oryx.js from jbpm-designer. It contains the following copyright. So i assume that this file was forked before the GPL was added.

/**

* Copyright (c) 2006

* Martin Czuchra, Nicolas Peters, Daniel Polak, Willi Tscheschner

*

* Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a

* copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),

* to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation

* the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,

* and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the

* Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

*

* The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in

* all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

*

* THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR

* IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,

* FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE

* AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER

* LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING

* FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER

* DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

**/

Best Florian

[krisverlaenen]

Florian,

[As far as I know,] the Oryx editor was originally MIT licensed.  This codebase went through several big changes already, one of them being closer tied to Signavio (with Signavio core components and an academic initiative) and a license change to GPLv3.  Note that we forked our version of the Oryx editor before the license change, so we are still using the old MIT license.  The fact that the license file points to a URL, which has since then been updated, is confusing I admit.

Also see:

http://docs.jboss.org/jbpm/v5.4/userguide/ch.getting-stated.html#d0e336

Kris

Disclaimer: I tried to answer this to the best of my knowledge, but I'm not a legal expert.