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= Rasdaman License =

Rasdaman community is licensed in a way to allow inclusion of the system in any-license software systems:
   * the server-side executables (such as rasserver and rasmgr): [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gpl GPL] [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt version 3]; see file COPYING in the source tree root.
   * client libraries (such as libraslib.a) and applications (such as rasql) as well as the OGC frontends (that is: the petascope servlet): [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Lesser_General_Public_License LGPL] [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-3.0.txt version 3]; see file COPYING.LESSER in the source tree root.

See the standard header in each file in the source tree to determine its respective license scheme.

== Why This Dual Scheme? ==

In short: To maximize both free use and community return.

We chose GPL for the server because
   * Life is a give and take, and we believe that open-source is about sharing by all who benefit.
   * A [http://www.rasdaman.com commercially supported, non-GPL-restricted variant of rasdaman] is available which we recommend to all users who have requirements that go beyond GPL.

On the other hand, rasdaman can be used embedded in other systems as well: the LGPL client connectors allow for an uninhibited inclusion (such as linking) with code of any licensing model, including proprietary.