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10                   <h1>Licensing Summary</h1>
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12<p>IT Mill Toolkit 4.1 is available for use under two licensing options:
13
14<ul>
15    <li><a href="#opensource">Open Source licensing</a> with
16    permissive Apache 2.0 license. This option includes the core library
17    and is fully functional. Open Source licensing option does not include
18    any support, guarantees or all commercially available tools and
19    features.</li>
20    <li>Commercial license can be purchased
21    from IT Mill Ltd. It is designed to suit commercial use of the library
22    and includes support, guarantee as well as additional tools that
23    accelerate software development with IT Mill Toolkit</li>
24</ul>
25</p>
26
27<p>Please read carefully about the licensing options and
28evaluate the suitability of the actual license files before use. If you
29have any questions about licensing options, please contact sales at <a
30    href="http://www.itmill.com/"> IT Mill Ltd</a>.</p>
31
32<p>The following tools and services are not provided with Open
33Source license
34<ul>
35    <li><b>Support services</b>: No support is provided, but use of
36    discussion forums is encouraged.</li>
37    <li><b>Guarantee</b>: Open Source version is provided without
38    guarantee. Please report any issues, we try to fix them in upcoming
39    product releases.</li>
40    <li><b>IPR protection</b>: No IPR protection is provided other
41    than stated in the Apache 2.0 license.</li>
42</ul>
43
44
45<h1><a name="opensource" />Open Source License</h1>
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47        IT MILL TOOLKIT LICENSE INFORMATION
48       
49December 4th, 2007
50
51
52The IT Mill Toolkit software and sample code developed by IT Mill is
53licensed under the Apache License, v. 2.0. Other software included in this
54distribution is provided under other licenses, as listed in the Included
55Software and Licenses section at the bottom of this page. Source code for
56software included in this distribution is available from the IT Mill
57Toolkit project or as otherwise indicated at the bottom of this page. 
58
59=====
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224
225LICENSE INFORMATION REGARDING BUNDLED THIRD-PARTY SOFTWARE
226
227The following third party software is distributed with IT Mill Toolkit
228and is provided under other licenses and/or has source
229available from other locations.
230
231* Winstone Servlet Container
232  License: The Web-App DTD files (everything in the
233  src/javax/servlet/resources and src/javax/servlet/jsp/resources folders)
234  are covered by the licenses described at the top of each file (usually as
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238  Distribution License (CDDL) as decribed in LICENSE-CDDL.txt.
239  Source code availability: http://winstone.sourceforge.net/
240  Used only in IT Mill Toolkit demos.
241 
242* HSQLDB Database Engine
243  License: See License folder within this package or
244    http://hsqldb.org/web/hsqlLicense.html
245  Source code availability: http://hsqldb.org/
246  Used only in IT Mill Toolkit demos.
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