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| 10 | <h1>Licensing Guidelines</h1> |
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| 11 | |
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| 12 | Licensing in nutshell: |
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| 13 | <ul> |
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| 14 | <li>Free for learning, development and testing</li> |
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| 15 | <li>Free for small production deployments (max 4 concurrent active users per server)</li> |
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| 16 | <li>Commercial license is required for larger production environment</li> |
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| 17 | <li>For distributing IT Mill Toolkit as a part of your own |
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| 18 | product, either purchase suitable commercial deployment licenses or |
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| 19 | contact us for OEM-license tailored for your needs.</li> |
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| 22 | <h3>Free use</h3> |
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| 24 | <p>Application development is complitely free. Furthermore, you can deploy |
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| 25 | the developed application for testing and validation at the development time.</p> |
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| 26 | |
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| 27 | <p>You can obtain a free license for production use in small workgroups from |
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| 28 | <a href="http://www.itmill.com/">IT Mill License store</a>. This license |
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| 29 | covers use of 4 active users concurrently |
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| 30 | using the application in one server.</p> |
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| 31 | |
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| 32 | <h3>Commercial use</h3> |
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| 33 | |
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| 34 | <p>A commercial license must be obtained for production use of the |
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| 35 | applications that use IT Mill Toolkit libraries.</p> |
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| 36 | |
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| 37 | <p>A deployment license is required for each deployed copy of a program |
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| 38 | that uses Toolkit library. To be more exact, each Java Virtual |
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| 39 | Machine (JVM) that runs a program that uses IT Mill Toolkit libraries, must have an |
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| 40 | unique deployment license. For example, if the program is |
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| 41 | deployed to multiple servers (for load balancing or other reasons), each |
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| 42 | server needs an unique license.</p> |
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| 43 | |
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| 44 | <p>If the number of server installations is so high that separate deployment |
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| 45 | licenses are not an option, please contact <a href="http://www.itmill.com/">sales</a> |
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| 46 | to hear about OEM licensing options.</p> |
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| 48 | <h2>Purchasing Commercial License</h2> |
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| 50 | <p>Deployment licenses can be purchased online from <a |
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| 51 | href="http://www.itmill.com/">IT Mill Ltd</a>.</p> |
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| 52 | |
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| 53 | <p>If you are interested in OEM-license for your product, please |
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| 54 | contact sales at <a href="http://www.itmill.com/">IT Mill Ltd</a>.</p> |
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| 55 | |
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| 56 | <h2>License terms</h2> |
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| 58 | <p>The actual legal license text is in <a href="license.pdf">license.pdf</a>.</p> |
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| 59 | |
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| 60 | <h2>License files</h2> |
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| 62 | <p>Technically license is stored as itmill-toolkit-license.xml -file, that is usually |
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| 63 | store in WEB-INF -directory of the web-application. The license file |
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| 64 | contains information about the scope and limitations of the license in fairly readable |
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| 65 | form, so you might want to check the file contents. Toolkit package is shipped with |
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| 66 | unlimited license for development and testing purposes.</p> |
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| 67 | |
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| 68 | <p>Free unlimited development license <a href="lib/itmill-toolkit-license.xml"> |
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| 69 | license-file</a> is included in product package in |
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| 70 | lib -directory</p> |
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| 72 | <h2>Open Source Edition</h2> |
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| 74 | <p>The previous version 3 of the product was called Millstone User Interface Library. |
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| 75 | Millstone library was licensed with very liberal LGPL-license. The latest free release of |
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| 76 | Millstone User Interface Library (version 3.1) can still be found from sourceforge.</p> |
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| 77 | |
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| 78 | <p>The new version 4 of the library, now called IT Mill Toolkit, is not licensed with |
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| 79 | an open source license. This does not mean that the sources are closed, source code is |
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| 80 | included in the product package for your convenience. </p> |
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| 81 | |
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| 82 | <p>Why did we change the license? Putting a clear transparent pricing model on the |
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| 83 | product makes our customers decision-making easier. They know how much they are |
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| 84 | paying for and that they can expect commercial grade quality product for their money.</p> |
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| 85 | |
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| 86 | <h2>Educational use</h2> |
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| 88 | <p>If you want to use the IT Mill Toolkit for teaching programming, web |
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| 89 | development or user interface design, you can apply for educational |
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| 90 | license by contacting sales at <a href="http://www.itmill.com/">IT |
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| 91 | Mill Ltd</a>.</p> |
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