lehmann Posted January 8, 2015 Posted January 8, 2015 We have built an embedded report designer based on JavaFX, providing a subset of the Jaspersoft Studio features. This designer is embedded into a commercial ERP product. Is it allowed to reuse a small amount of element icons, e.g. for Textfield or Frame, from Studio?
ernestoo Posted January 8, 2015 Posted January 8, 2015 Studio is bound to GNU Affero License http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html - You can do what you'd like as long as you abide by that license
lehmann Posted January 8, 2015 Author Posted January 8, 2015 Sure. But what does this actually mean for a few icons? Does this count as "fair use"? Or does it count as "small snippets of documentation"? The AGPL has redistribution of (possibly altered) Studio versions in mind. I am not doing that at all.
ernestoo Posted January 8, 2015 Posted January 8, 2015 Hm. I really don't know...you'd need a lawyer to really answer the question :)
ernestoo Posted January 8, 2015 Posted January 8, 2015 One last comment - if you purchase Jaspersoft Studio it becomes a regular commercial license that you can do anything with.
hozawa Posted January 8, 2015 Posted January 8, 2015 If you're going to "sell" products based on Jaspersoft Studio, it'll be necessary to have all users buy Jaspersoft Studio licenses as well - I don't think commercial license isn't transferable to other users. What lehmann requires to be safe is to buy an OEM license from Tibco Jaspersoft as we've done. :-)
lehmann Posted January 9, 2015 Author Posted January 9, 2015 Buying an OEM license to use just a few icons (less than 10) and nothing else is probably a bit too much. I guess we'll have to recreate the icons then.
Solution Massimo Rabbi Posted January 9, 2015 Solution Posted January 9, 2015 The Jaspersoft Studio license that applies to the Community Edition is the EPL (Eclipse Public License). For the Professional version the TIBCO commercial license applies. Personally I would suggest to contact the legal team of TIBCO Jaspersoft, before proceeding further including icons. From a developer point of view, what I can say is that we usually included icons,images already used by other Eclipse projects (so under the EPL license itself), created part of them and included ones free for commercial use. Of course it would be better to investigate on the specific icons you are talking about. Anyhow please refer to the legal team first. Regards, Massimo.
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