Jofti

License

Jofti is dual licensed. You can license the source under the GPL (General Public License) providing your own software is GPL compliant. Alternatively, as the GPL is very restrictive you can purchase a Deployment or Third-Party License which frees you from the requirements of the GPL. Development with and evaluation of Jofti is free.

If you are using this software for a commercial project the Deployment or Third-Party licenses allows you to provide commercial software to your customers or distribute applications including Jofti.

This option is better for organizations that do not want to release the source code for their applications under the GPL and removes any doubt about the license implications for your software. In general if you are developing software for an Organisation, a Government, OEM or Consultancy you will be better served with a Commercial license.

GPL Interpretation

• Jofti is free use for those who are really GPL. If your application is licensed under GPL or compatible license approved by Jofti, you are free to ship any GPL software with your application ('application' means any type of software application, system or utility).
• Under this License, you must release the complete source code for the application that is using Jofti.
• As long as you never redistribute Jofti in any way, you are free to use it. The term "redistribute" means your application is distributed to one or more third parties.
  • Giving or selling an application to customers, even in alpha or beta releases, is to redistribute.
  • Giving or selling contractors, affiliates, parent organizations or subsidiaries, business partners or support vendors a copy of the application is to redistribute the app.
• You are allowed to modify Jofti's source code any way you like as long as the redistributed derivative work is licensed under the GPL.

Development and GPL projects

Development, evaluation and GPL compliant projects users are free to download Jofti under the GPL license.

You can use this version on as many machines as required as part of your development or evaluation process.

View the GPL License.

You can download the current version and the source here. We are happy to try and answer any support questions while you are evaluating the product via the forums.

Support for the Open source version of Jofti is priced at $500 per year and covers email support with a 2 working day turnaround on issues, although community support for general issues is free and is available via the support forums.

Deployment Licenses

For those wanting to use Jofti in a project that does not conform to the GPL you must purchase a deployment license. The licensing is on a per-server basis, meaning you will need to obtain a license for each machine you (or your clients) run Jofti on in a production environment.

Current pricing is $500 per server. (Some volume discounts are available). Support is priced at $500 per year and covers email support with a 2 working day turnaround on issues, or $1000/year for a 1 working day response. Community support for general issues is free and is available via the support forums.

Please email Sales at Jofti for details or if you have any questions.

View the Deployment License.