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): ​GPL ​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): ​LGPL ​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 ​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.