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Distribution model & licensing
The SuperWaba SDK is distributed in two versions: Community and Professional, each one under a different license: GNU GPL and GNU LGPL, respectively. Both licenses were created by the Free Software Foundation and grants to SuperWaba users: source code access and the freedom of modification, execution and distribution of all the SWSDK software. GNU licenses text are available at www.fsf.org. The table below summarizes the difference between the two versions:
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Characteristics |
Community |
Professional |
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License |
GNU GPL |
GNU LGPL |
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Developer Support |
- |
3 incidents with SLA*** of 4 business days |
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Updates |
Updates restricted to version releases ( 2 to 4 months with no commitment) |
Weekly Patches |
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Documentation |
Simplified |
Complete reference manuals pdf) |
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Error report and fixes |
Only through the SourceForge site without any SLA*** |
Through SuperWaba Support System with SLA of 7 business days |
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Usage |
Proof of concept development, prototying, open-source development or academic researches |
Directed to professional use |
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Cost |
no cost |
Annual fee required |
Dual Licensing
The Community version uses GNU GPL license that does not allow the development and distribution of closed-source applications, and requiring any developed application to be licensed under the same GNU GPL license. The Professional version uses GNU LGPL license allowing the development and distribution of closed-source applications. In this case, the developer can use any other license desired.
Developer Support
The Developer Support Service uses the incident model, where contact(s) designed by the subscribed company can request SuperWaba’s Team support, whenever there exists any doubts about SuperWaba libraries use, configuration and installation or to request an error correction in an application. The requests are made at SuperWaba’s web support system and the designed contacts must open a support incident for each request.
Support service scope includes all kinds of problems and error fixes, except code optimization incidents that are considered Additional Services. The designed contacts can upload source code to a versioned and safe repository (CVS), under SuperWaba Ltd responsibility, for easy debugging.
Reported Error fixes
Reported errors on the platform are immediately analyzed and the fixes are made according to a Service Level Agreement (SLA) well defined..
Service Level Agreements (SLA)
SuperWaba has well defined Service Level Agreements in order to offer reliable products and services. The defined SLAs are:
» Developer Support Service – 4 business days
» Reported Platform Error fixes – 7 business days.
Important considerations about licensing.
» To develop PROPRIETARY software with Community package (GPL license) is ILLEGAL. Any software developed with this package must be a free software either (free distrbution, source code access to modify and freedom to run the software at any time).
» By using the SuperWaba SDK version 5.0 or later, you're automatically
accepting the terms of the
license.
» For PROPRIETARY software development the Professional package must be used (GNU LGPL license).
» The new licensing and distribution form adopted from SuperWaba 5.0 on is not retroative to older versions (4.5a or lower) with whom proprietary software development is allowed.
» The full license text of each SDK (Community ou Professional) can be found in "SuperWabaSDK/license.txt" directory after installing it. For online access, click in the links: GPL e LGPL.
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