Cisco CiscoWorks LAN Management Solution 4.0 许可信息
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Open Source and Third-Party Licenses Used In CiscoWorks LAN Management Solution 4.0
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1.2 ACME 1.0
By the way, FreshMeat has a nice list of different types of freeware licenses. There are quite a few
besides BSD and GPL. There’s also the OpenSource.org list of open source licenses, which is not
quite the same as the freeware licenses.
http://www.acme.com/license.html (1 of 2) [6/23/2008 2:55:36 PM]
ACME Labs Freeware License
Here are some questions people ask about the license:
"Can I use your software
in a freeware product? "
Sure.
"Can I use your software
in a commercial product?
Do I have to pay you? "
Yes you can, and no you don’t have to, although we certainly won’t object to any checks you
care to send our way.
"If I use your software as
part of my product, do I
have to include your
source code? Or my source
code?" "
No. You’re thinking of the Gnu license. Our license just says that if you distribute our source
code then you must leave in the license text; but you are free to use it in binary-only form if
you like, and put the license text in your documentation instead.
"Can I make my own version
of your software? "
Of course.
"Can I distribute my own
version of your software? "
Yes, although unless it’s just a repackaging we’d prefer that you didn’t. Having multiple
versions of the same thing floating around is inherently distasteful. If you absolutely must
distribute your own modified version of our software, please name it something else to avoid
confusing people.
"Would you please send me
a signed disclaimer, so
my company’s lawyers are
happy? "
No. The license in the source code is sufficient.
"We don’t want to put
your license in our