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1.1. SemanticServiceRegistryAPI Technology Licensing
Technology licensing is the smartest approach
for scientists or students to develop research prototypes,
as well as for more seasoned companies who want to focus on the
integration of SemanticServiceRegistryAPI
into valuable commercial products.
Licensing high-quality technology for a fair price often makes the whole
difference between a brilliant idea
that fades away with development difficulties and a groundbreaking title
that hits the shelves
with outrageous success.
That is the way SemanticServiceRegistryAPI creators understand
the technology licensing issue.
The Competence Center Software Engineering and Interactive Systems at the
Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering is workgroup focusing on
innovative collaboration techniques as well as ambient intelligence
system, which do a lot of work in the background, but in an unobtrusively way.
1.2. SemanticServiceRegistryAPI
Commercial License
The SemanticServiceRegistryAPI full software package,
including the API and various tools with full source code,
is available for use in a commercial product or application in
conjunction with a collaboration or partnership
with our institute (Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering /
IAO).
The commercial license includes:
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Full access to the
licensee-restricted CVS repository, where the full version of the software
is available for download.
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Customized special
e-mail, instant message and telephone support.
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The rights to use
SemanticServiceRegistryAPI in one commercial product, without
other payments or any kind of revenue share.
Additional services, like programming a new
feature or on-site support, are not included in the license and
can be arranged separately if requested by the licensee.
The licensee is NOT allowed to sell, provide or publicly expose the
SemanticServiceRegistryAPI Collaboration Kit source code,
in part or as a whole, to anybody except the current employees of the
licensee company.
1.3. SemanticServiceRegistryAPI
GPL General Public Licence
Alternatively, SemanticServiceRegistryAPI is also
available for licensing under the GNU General Public License
terms.
The full description of the GPL system is available at the GPL website
(http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html),
but in short it means that the licensing company (Fraunhofer Institute
for Industrial Engineering) will not charge any fees
for the intellectual property regarding the licensed software; it will
provide the source code and other resources for free,
and can only charge packing, distribution and transportation costs.
The licensee, however, is obligated to provide the full source code of
the product he develops with the licensed software
to anybody who asks it, free of charge.
Doris
Janssen
Fraunhofer IAO
Nobelstrasse 12
70569 Stuttgart
Germany
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