The Commercial License is an agreement with BZbyte LLC for organizations that do not want to release their application source code. Commercially licensed customers get a commercially supported product with assurances from BZbyte LLC. Commercially licensed users are also free from the requirement of making their own 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 or you may distribute BZbyte LLC software, you must first obtain a commercial license to the BZbyte LLC product.

Typical examples of BZbyte LLC software distribution include:

• Selling software that includes BZbyte LLC software to customers who install the software on their own machines.

• Selling software that requires customers to install BZbyte LLC software themselves on their own machines.

• Building a hardware system that includes BZbyte LLC software and selling that hardware system to customers for installation at their own locations.

Specifically:

• If you include the BZbyte LLC software with an application that is not licensed under the GPL or GPL-compatible license, you need a commercial license for the BZbyte LLC software.
  

• If you develop and distribute a commercial application and as part of utilizing your application, the end-user must download a copy of BZbyte LLC software; for each derivative work, you (or, in some cases, your end-user) needs a commercial license for the BZbyte LLC software.

• If you include one or more of the BZbyte LLC modules in your non-GPL application (so that your application can run with BZbyte LLC software), you need a commercial license for the module(s) in question.
  

• If you distribute BZbyte LLC Software within your organization, you should purchase a commercial license.

• GPL users have no direct legal relationship with BZbyte LLC. The commercial license, on the other hand, is BZbyte LLC's private license, and provides a direct legal relationship with BZbyte LLC.

With a commercial non-GPL BZbyte LLC software license, one license is required per host (single installed BZbyte LLC binary). There are no restrictions on the number of connections, number of CPUs, memory or disks to that one BZbyte LLC host.

Non-Profits, Academic Institutions, and Private Individuals

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 BZbyte LLC 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. Note that non-profits can apply for free commercial licenses, which will be liberally granted.

If you are a private individual you are free to use BZbyte LLC 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 BZbyte LLC 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.