German [ABMaterial] Lizenz >> kommerzieller Einsatz möglich

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alwaysworker

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Hallo Miteinander,
ich bin etwas verwirrt bei der Lizenzierung von ABMaterial.
Könnte mir das mal eine erklären?
Ich sehe hier in den Foren einige Projekte die auf einen kommerziellen Einsatz hinweisen.
Ist ein kommerzieller Einsatz von ABMaterial + B4J möglich?
Oder ist nur ein unentgeltlicher Einsatz möglich?

Danke für die Mühe
 
alwaysbusy

alwaysbusy

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ABMaterial is free for commercial and non-commercial use for 99.9% of what you are going to write (like a CRM, a WebApp to collect data, make reports, any 'normal' WebApp actually). There is only one exception is the TYPE app, which is:

B4X: 
YOU AGREE NOT TO DISTRIBUTE FOR A FEE AN APPLICATION USING THE LIBRARY THAT, AS ITS PRIMARY PURPOSE, IS DESIGNED TO BE AN AID IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOFTWARE FOR YOUR APPLICATION'S END USER. SUCH APPLICATION INCLUDES, BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO, A DEVELOPMENT IDE OR A B4J SOURCE CODE GENERATOR.

This exception was added because of some abuse of someone who made a tool that generated ABMaterial/B4J source code and then sold this tool on this forum. It was a tool intended for programmers, not for a normal WebApp end-user. In the case of this TYPE app, you are not allowed to sell it.

The same limitation applies to BANano also by the way. You can write WebApps with it (and even write a BANanoLibrary and ask for a fee to use it), but you can not make a tool/BANanoLibrary that generates BANano/B4J code and then sell this tool to other programmers.

Alwaysbusy
 
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