License agreements and development support

License regulations contain the agreements for using ODABA. Practically, one may use ODABA as long as publishing products as Open Source products under GPL, again. Besides the GPL there is a commercial license, which allows using ODABA for creating products, which do not require a GPL.

ODABA does not require runtime licenses for ODABA applications, except some special advanced features (in this version it is the RDBMS controller for running ODABA on relational database systems). Usually, advanced features become part of the open source agreement after a few years.

One may use the GPL in order to develop other software licensed under GPL. In order to develop commercial software not licensed as GPL product, one may get a commercial development license.

Note, the the GPL allows creating any sort of GPL projects, i.e. projects for own purposes as well as well as commercial products (as long as those are published under GPL, again). In order to develop non-GPL products, a commercial development license is required, which can be ordered at RUN-Software.

One may also join the ODABA Software Development Foundation, which supports the further ODABA development and which gives you a chance to participate in strategic and short term decisions.