OPM Commercial License
The Commercial License is an agreement with OMOLI, Inc. for organizations that do not want to release their application source code. Commercially licensed customers get a commercially supported product with assurances from OMOLI, Inc. Commercially licensed users are also free from the requirement of making their application open source.
When your application is not licensed under either the GPL-compatible Free Software License, as defined by the Free Software Foundation or approved by OSI, and you intend to distribute OPM software (be that externally to customers or internally within your organization), you must first obtain a commercial license to the OPM product.
Typical examples of OPM distribution include:
- Selling software that includes OPM to customers who install the software on their own machines.
- Selling software that requires customers to install OPM themselves on their own machines.
Specifically:
- If you include OPM code with an application that is not licensed under the GPL or GPL-compatible license, you need a commercial license for the OPM software.
- If you develop and distribute a commercial application and as part of utilizing your application, the end-user must download a copy of OPM; for each derivative work, you (or, in some cases, your end-user) need a commercial license for the OPM software.
- If you distribute OPM Software within your organization, you should purchase a commercial license.
- GPL users have no direct legal relationship with OMOLI, Inc.. The commercial license, on the other hand, is OMOLI, Inc.'s private license, and provides a direct legal relationship with OMOLI, Inc..
If you represent a non-profit organization or an academic institution, we recommend you publish your application as an open source / free software project using the GPL license. Thereby, you are free to use OPM software free of charge under the GPL license. We believe that if you have strong reasons to not publish your application in accordance with the GPL, you should purchase commercial licenses.
If you are a private individual you are free to use OPM software for your personal applications as long as you do not distribute them. If you distribute them, you must make a decision between the Commercial License and the GPL. Please note that even if you ship a free demo version of your own application, the above rules apply.
Recommendations
Please note that OMOLI, Inc. can only give advice on which license is right for you. The final judgment, of course can be made only by a court of law. With that said, we recommend the commercial license to all commercial and government organizations. This frees you from the broad and strict requirements of the GPL license. To all free software enthusiasts we recommend our products under the GPL license. To anyone in doubt, we recommend the commercial license. It is never wrong. Thanks to our cost-effective way of producing software, we are able to sell our commercial licenses at prices well under the industry average.
When in Doubt
If you have any questions on OPM licensing, feel free to contact us: USA and Canada: + 1-770-633-1787 or Support
OSI = Open Source Initiative
GPL = GNU General Public License