Difference between revisions of "Licensing"
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In general, new, original software developed under the ZeptoOS project is distributed under the GNU GPL / LGPL licenses, as appropriate. Those licenses can be found in the top-level directory of the ZeptoOS tarball. If you are not familiar with the GPL or LGPL licensing, please see the files above and also visit http://www.gnu.org/. | In general, new, original software developed under the ZeptoOS project is distributed under the GNU GPL / LGPL licenses, as appropriate. Those licenses can be found in the top-level directory of the ZeptoOS tarball. If you are not familiar with the GPL or LGPL licensing, please see the files above and also visit http://www.gnu.org/. | ||
| − | However, ZeptoOS is a collection of many existing software components, packaged and distributed under a number of | + | However, ZeptoOS is a collection of many existing software components, packaged and distributed under a number of licenses, such as: |
| − | ; GPL/LGPL | + | ; GPL / LGPL |
: Linux kernel, GNU libc, FUSE, PVFS, BusyBox, iptables, NBD, psmisc, | : Linux kernel, GNU libc, FUSE, PVFS, BusyBox, iptables, NBD, psmisc, | ||
; CPL (Common Public License) | ; CPL (Common Public License) | ||
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; BSD | ; BSD | ||
: MPICH, TAU (note that TAU is distributed separately from the ZeptoOS tarball), netkit-rsh | : MPICH, TAU (note that TAU is distributed separately from the ZeptoOS tarball), netkit-rsh | ||
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| + | The important thing is that all these licenses are free/open source, [http://www.opensource.org/licenses OSI-approved licenses]. | ||
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[[ZeptoOS_Documentation|Top]] | [[ZeptoOS_Documentation|Top]] | ||
Latest revision as of 16:33, 8 May 2009
In general, new, original software developed under the ZeptoOS project is distributed under the GNU GPL / LGPL licenses, as appropriate. Those licenses can be found in the top-level directory of the ZeptoOS tarball. If you are not familiar with the GPL or LGPL licensing, please see the files above and also visit http://www.gnu.org/.
However, ZeptoOS is a collection of many existing software components, packaged and distributed under a number of licenses, such as:
- GPL / LGPL
- Linux kernel, GNU libc, FUSE, PVFS, BusyBox, iptables, NBD, psmisc,
- CPL (Common Public License)
- DCMF, SPI,
- BSD
- MPICH, TAU (note that TAU is distributed separately from the ZeptoOS tarball), netkit-rsh
The important thing is that all these licenses are free/open source, OSI-approved licenses.
