Should I pay for JasperReports?

[prosvet]

I am using JasperReports library to generate reports for my client. Not being a lawyer, I am not sure whether in this case (commercial use, I presume?) I should pay the licence. If no - then no problem. If yes, how much would it cost?

Igor

[biaggi]

Jasper is unther gnu license, so you can use it without remorse ;)

For more information you can read the license.txt provided with jasperserver or directly this page:

 

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/

 

Best regards

 

[gabrielinux]

There are two versions available, one that's commercial and one that's open source.  The open source one doesn't have all the features of the commercial edition, but it's VERY usable and it's free, even for commercial use.

 

To use the commercial version, you need to pay for a license.  You'll need to get a quote from jaspersoft.com.

[lucianc]

gabrielinux
Wrote:

There are two versions available, one that's commercial and one that's open source.  The open source one doesn't have all the features of the commercial edition, but it's VERY usable and it's free, even for commercial use.

You must be referring to JasperServer.  The original question was about JasperReports.

The open source JasperReports distribution does include all the features of the JR library.  The commercial JasperReports package includes services/support/etc, but no additional features.

Also note that there is a licensing difference between JasperServer and JasperReports.  JasperServer is shipped under GPL, while JasperRepors is available under LGPL (Lesser/Library GPL), which is more permissive (for redistribution, for instance) than GPL.

Regards,

Lucian

[gabrielinux]

Oh right -- I didn't see he was talking about JasperReports and not JasperServer. :)