3 Replies Latest reply on Oct 23, 2015 10:43 AM by nickboldt

JBoss Developer Studio with integration stack licensing and terms of agreement

souciance.eqdam.rashti Oct 22, 2015 10:33 AM

Hello,

I would like to receive some clarification regarding JBoss Developer Studio. It includes something called integration stack. We have simply downloaded it from the site and then added the integration stack to it.

I am currently using it to develop and test for a proof of concept. Our runtime environment is on other hand Apache Karaf. We are doing this to evaluate the entire osgi environment.

Should we decide to go ahead with this POC in quality or production environment, do we risk breaking any license or agreement rules for using Developer studio with the integration stack? To be clear, Apache Karaf will be the runtime in qa/prod.

Thanks for any help on this.

/Souciance

1. Re: JBoss Developer Studio with integration stack licensing and terms of agreement

nickboldt Oct 22, 2015 5:46 PM (in response to souciance.eqdam.rashti)

If you read the licence terms for the Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio Integration Stack, you'll see it should be pretty much the same as the license terms for Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio, since they are both developed by Red Hat.

So if you're allowed to use Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio, you should be fine to use the Integration Stack too.

That said, I am not a lawyer, and this is not legal advice. Contact your legal department for more information on how EPL-licensed software works.
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2. Re: JBoss Developer Studio with integration stack licensing and terms of agreement

souciance.eqdam.rashti Oct 23, 2015 2:52 AM (in response to nickboldt)

Thanks Nick for the answer. I'll have to dig into this a bit more. As with all these legalities there are so much hidden information.
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3. Re: JBoss Developer Studio with integration stack licensing and terms of agreement

nickboldt Oct 23, 2015 10:43 AM (in response to souciance.eqdam.rashti)

Other than what's embedded in the installer, the features, the plugins, the source code itself... there's also this:

http://www.redhat.com/en/about/licenses

Hope that helps!

We (in Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio (and the Integration Stack too) strive to keep everything under the Eclipse Public License but for a few plugins there is older code under different licenses. You'll want to grep for LICENSE or LICENCE files which should provide details of other licenses used (Apache, LGPL, WTFPL, ...)
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