Chandler Licensing Plan

OSAF’s mission is to create and gain wide adoption for software applications of uncompromising quality using open-source methods. This implies that first and foremost we will make our software available free-of-charge under free / open source licenses for those operating exclusively in those worlds.

More specifically:

Apache Software License

As of version 0.7alpha3 of Chandler, OSAF is changing the license for the Chandler desktop product to the Apache 2.0 License (our Cosmo and Scooby codebases are already Apache Licensed).  Previous versions of Chandler were licensed under the GNU GPL because we thought that we would pursue a MySQL style dual licensing scheme as part of the sustainability plans for the Foundation.  We no longer plan to pursue this kind of scheme in order to acheive our sustainability goals, and we want to reduce the number of open source licenses in use at OSAF.

Those interested in the complete discussion on this topic can look at the archives of the OSAF 'general' mailing list:

<http:// lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/general/2006-May/000248.html>

GNU General Public License.

Chandler 0.1 through 0.7alpha2 is available as free software under the terms of the GNU General Public License.