Liferay open source software#

In this way, Liferay preserves your freedom to release your software (or not) in any way that seems right to you. Instead, you are free to use any license you like: open source or proprietary, or none at all. While LGPL licensed projects themselves retainВ the benefits of being free software, if you build an application that does not modify the original code, you are in no way obligated to release yourВ code under the LGPL. вЂ‹One important difference between the GNU Public License and the Lesser GNU Public LicenseВ that most Liferay projects use is the exception for software that has a different license.

Access to the source code is a precondition for this. By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes.

The freedom toВ distribute copies of your modified versions to others.

The freedom toВ redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor.

The freedom toВ study how the program worksВ and change it so it does your computing as you wish.

The freedom toВ run the program as you wish, for any purpose.

They are typically made available under the GNU Lesser General Public License ( LGPL ) which provides you with the four freedoms of free software: Most of the products developedВ by Liferay are Open Source software. This software development methodology is described in Eric S.

Open-source softwareВ ( OSS) is computer softwareВ with its source codeВ made available and licensed with a licenseВ in which the copyrightВ holder provides the rights to study, change and distribute the software to anyone and for any purpose.В Open-source software is very often developed in a public, collaborativeВ mannerВ ( Wikipedia).

Liferay open source