Stringbeans GPL License

The GPL Open Source License allows you to offer your software under an open source / free software license to all who wish to use, modify, and distribute it freely. The Open Source License allows you to use the software at no charge under the condition that if you use Stringbeans portal in an application you redistribute, the complete source code for your application must be available and freely redistributable under reasonable conditions. Nabh bases its interpretation of the GPL on the Free Software Foundation's Frequently Asked Questions.

In general you can use Stringbeans portal under GPL if the following conditions apply:

• If your application is licensed under GPL or compatible OSI (Open Source Initiative) license, you are free to ship any GPL software of Nabh with your application ('application' means any type of software application, system, tool or utility). We do encourage you to contact us to explore partnership opportunities.
• As long as you do not distribute (internally or externally) the Stringbeans portal software in any way, you are free to use it for building your application, irrespective of whether your application is under GPL license or not.
• You are allowed to modify Stringbeans portal Software source code any way you like as long as the distributed derivative work is also licensed under the GPL.

Stringbeans Commercial License

When your application is not licensed under either the GPL-compatible Free Software License as defined by the Free Software Foundation or approved by OSI, and you intend to or you may distribute Stringbeans software, you must first obtain a commercial license from Nabh. More specifically, you need a commercial license if any one of the following conditions applies to your usage of Stringbeans portal.

• If you include Stringbeans portal server with an application that is not licensed under the GPL or GPL-compatible license, you need a commercial license for the Stringbeans portal server.
• If you develop and distribute a commercial application and as part of utilizing your application, the end-user must download a copy of Stringbeans; for each derivative work, you (or, in some cases, your end-user) need a commercial license for the Stringbeans portal server and/or Stringbeans client libraries.
• If you distribute Stringbeans Software within your organization, you should purchase a commercial license. Please visit our store for more information about the commercial licenses pricing.

Definitions

• "License" or "SPCL" shall mean the terms and conditions for use, reproduction, and distribution as defined by this document.
• "Nabh" shall mean Nabh Information Systems, Inc. that is granting the License.
• "Licensee" shall mean an individual or Legal Entity exercising permissions granted by this License.

Terms and Conditions

1. SPCL terms and conditions cover usage of Stringbeans Portal Server only. SPCL does not extend to any third party portlets, or portlets developed by Nabh that make use of third party software.
2. Licensee is required to purchase one license per CPU. If you run Stringbeans portal server on a multi-processor machine, you will have to buy as many licenses as the number of processors.
3. Each Stringbeans Portal release is labeled with a version number of the form <Major Version>.<Minor Version>.<Patch Number>. The licensee is allowed to install and run one instance of the current Stringbeans Portal release or any future release with the same major version without having to purchase another license.
4. Nabh retains the ownership, intellectual property rights, and copyrights for all Stringbeans Portal software developed by Nabh.
5. The licensee retains all rights to additional software developed to work with Stringbeans Portal software. The licensee is not required to distribute additional software or modifications made to Stringbeans Portal Software. Any usage or modification of any third party software used in conjuction with Stringbeans Portal server is governed by its own licensing terms. The licensee is solely responsible for complying with licensing terms of any such third party software.
6. Stringbeans Portal includes Hypersonic SQL database and software from Apache Software Foundation. The licensee must comply with the corresponding license terms.

If you have any questions on Stringbeans licensing, please send us an email to license@nabhinc.com.