WildFly, license, and production environment vs EAP 6.2

[handfreezer]

     I would like to know if Wildfly is govern by the same restriction as EAP 6.2? (a subscription against RedHat is needed to use EAP 6.2 in production environment)

[welle]

Short answer: No, WildFly is the new name of the community version of JBoss. The RedHat commercial version of it is the EAP.

[rhusar]

Right, WildFly 8 is LGPL. You can do pretty much anything you want with it including running in a production environment.

[handfreezer]

Thanks for your answers.

Does someone know why, in the community download site of Jboss AS 7, the last download is NOT a community edition?

(Or did I miss the link to 7.3 community edition?)

Also:

I'm not sure LGPL license is enough to affirm that as EAP 6.2 is also note as LGPL license and you're not allowed to run in production environment with it...

Have a look here fo r EAP 6.2 is LGPL:

JBoss Application Server Downloads - JBoss Community

and this post indicating that a fee is necessary in production:

Re: Clarification needed: can I use JBoss EAP 6.2.0 in commercial production environment without a paid subscription?

[rhusar]

This licensing stuff can get complicated. Let me try to shed more light:

I'm not sure LGPL license is enough to affirm that as EAP 6.2 is also note as LGPL license and you're not allowed to run in production environment with it...

That's true, remember for downloading EAP you have to sign the 'Zero dollar subcription' which forbids running in the prod. env. Also, you can find the JBoss-EULA in the EAP zip.

Here is a pretty good whitepaper explaining the difference:

http://www.redhat.com/resourcelibrary/whitepapers/jboss-enterprise-middleware-community-to-enterprise-whitepaper

For WildFly, you didn't sign anything, you can use it freely.

(Or did I miss the link to 7.3 community edition?)

The 7.1.1 was the last binary release as you see at

JBoss Application Server Downloads - JBoss Community

The 7.2. release was a source tag only (no binary release), see

wildfly/wildfly at 7.2.0.Final · GitHub

The 7.3 is just internal naming stuff, there is no such release.