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Examples of acceptable licenses:
- Apache License 2.0
- BSD
- Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL)
- Common Public License (CPL)
- GNU Library or "Lesser" General Public License (LGPL)
- MIT / X11 License
- Mozilla Public License
- Additional examples may be found in our LICENSES_THIRD_PARTY file in the source code. This file lists the licenses of all third-party libraries used by DSpace.
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DuraSpace feels it is important for commercial entities and service providers to be able to customize the entire codebase and redistribute/repackage/sell it in a binary form. GPL licenses prevent this, as noted in the following FAQ questions:
In addition, the Apache Software Foundation has a good explanation of why they are also forced to avoid GPL-based (copyleft) licenses because of its incompatibility with Apache License 2.0. While DSpace is released under BSD licensing, the same issues exist between BSD licenses and GPL-based licenses. |
JDBC drivers for databases are an exception since:
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