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re-motion is dually licensed. You can have a commercial license for re-motion (includes support and more). This usually costs money, because it involves support or project work. There is a wikipedia article on the subject. There is a wikipedia article on the subject.
However, all of re-motion is also available under common variants of the GPL wikipedia. The GPL itself is not used in re-motion at the time of this writing; most of it is covered by a more consumer-friendly, less-strings-attached license.
The basic re-motion components - re-store, re-bind, re-call and re-motion mixins are covered by the LGPL, the lesser gnu public license
(wikipedia).
The LGPL is a fairly liberal license. You are allowed to link to the code, use the code and distribute it along with your own code. Only distributing modifications to the code requires you to distribute the modified code basis.
The following re-motion components are licensed under the LGPL. (Or,
actually, dually licensed. The LGPL is one of two options here.)
The following re-motion components are licensed under the LGPL. (Or,
actually, dually licensed. The LGPL is one of two options here.)
Other parts of re-motion are covered by the Affero GNU public license (AGPL). This license is like the GPL, with an important difference: providing running instances of AGPLed software over a network is treated like "distribution" (in contrast to the GPL, where it is not).
The security module re-strict is licensed under the AGPL. (Or, actually, dually licensed. The AGPL is one of two options here.)
The security module re-strict is licensed under the AGPL. (Or, actually, dually licensed. The AGPL is one of two options here.)
The consequence: if you provide modified AGPLed software as a web service (for example) you must share your modifications. (wikipedia.)
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is dual-licensed under the LGPL/AGPL open source licences (see details below) as well as a commercial license. The definitive source regarding the open source licensing of re-motion is always the licensing information given in the re-motion source code.
re-motion Open Source Licenses
The re-motion core components:
re-store
re-bind
re-form
re-call
re-motion mixins
re-linq
are licensed under the GNU LGPL version 2.1 or higher.
The re-motion enterprise components:
re-strict
re-vision
re-flow
are licensed unde the GNU AGPL version 3.
re-motion Commercial Licensing
The source code for all re-motion components can also be licensed commerically. Feel free to contact us, in case you have questions