JasperSoft Business Intelligence Suite License

Our aim at JasperSoft is to maintain the free nature of open source to end users, while establishing commercial relationships with vendors who are leveraging our code for their benefit. JasperSoft offers many open source products which are under the guidance of either the GNU General Public License (GPL) or GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) license. Our goal is to provide guidance on the usage of each product while maintaining compliance with the appropriate license.

The JasperSoft Business Intelligence Suite is governed by the GPL. It is very important to you and your organization to understand the terms of use of the JasperSoft Business Intelligence Suite in the context of the GPL.

If you are not distributing the JasperSoft Business Intelligence Suite, you may install the JasperSoft Business Intelligence Suite, use it as a stand-alone application, or modify it to suit your needs.

If you plan on distributing (i.e., people accessing the application are not part of your organization) a software application containing the JasperSoft Business Intelligence Suite, please note that your application may become subject to the GPL. As a result, you may be required to make the source code of your application and any customized code freely available. Also, if you do wish to make your source code available, you can always post the code on JasperSoft supported project web sites. For example, JasperSoft Business Intelligence Suite contributions can be posted at http://jasperforge.org/sf/tracker/do/listArtifacts/projects.jasperserver/tracker.patches or elsewhere where people can freely access it.

If you do not wish to make your source code freely available, JasperSoft offers a commercial subscription that allows you to maintain the proprietary nature of your application and custom code and not be obligated to disclose it to others. Commercial subscriptions also includes support, indemnification, training, documentation, and more. We are open to partnering and have a successful world-wide partner program providing such benefits as mutual lead generation.

If you or your organization has a policy against using software governed by the LGPL or GPL, a commercial subscription may also be of interest to you.

See JasperSoft Product Overview for more details.