License

License

The IaaS Framework is distributed under the Apache License 2.0, but as it includes several modules made by third parties and released with different licenses, things get a bit complex.

Basically:

1. if you want to use IaaS Framework globally, you must refer to the Apache license;
2. if you want to use some of the IaaS Framework components individually (with "individually" I mean without third parties' modules), you must refer to the Apache license;
3. if you want to integrate your own components and redistribute IaaS Framework, you must avoid using an incompatible license.

There are two documents, one from GNU and the other from Sun, which should help in understanding this topic.

These are the third parties' licenses in details:

Apache License, version 2.0

Copyright 2006, 2007 by Fabrizio Giudici

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.