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Re: [Newbie] Lincensing of WO apps

Stefan,

The WO you see on the Apple Store is the software and licensing for WebObjects 5.2. The current version of WebObjects is 5.3. The only way to get the 5.3 version of WO is to buy BOTH OS X and OS X Server (10.4). The good news is that the price of buying the two OSs is less than the cost of WebObjects by itself.

Now, onto the licensing. I googled for WebObjects licensing and found this link in the top 5: http://developer.apple.com/softwarelicensing/ agreements/webobjects.html. You will find a link to a PDF of the actual agreement there as well, but according to this old thred http://lists.apple.com/archives/webobjects-dev/2005/Nov/msg00353.html that agreement is only good for 5.2 and older versions.

There is an email address of email@hidden for questions about licensing on that page and I think that may be a good place to ask this question.

My guess is that you would need a license for each server running WO applications (multiple apps on one server only need one license, as far as I know), so if you have 10 customers, each with their own server, you would need 10 licensees. But, if you're customers deploy the application on OS X Server 10.4 then you would NOT need to buy the license for them as they have already purchased one as part of their OS X Server purchase.

Additionally, there has been some question as to the deployment of a WO 5.3 Application on other platforms besides OS X Server. The WO 5.3.1 developer release notes (http://docs.info.apple.com/ article.html?artnum=302797) seem to clear that issue up, but the question still remains of how do you get the license in the first place? It seems that right now, you have to buy OS X Server, then you can use that deployment license key to deploy on any compatible platform (which should be any platform capable of running Java 1.4).

I've seen people stating that WebObjects is now free. As far as I can tell this is absolutely NOT THE CASE. You MUST buy OS X Server to obtain a deployment key - which is required to deploy the application whether as a traditional WOA file, or as a servlet (WAR, Single Directory) capable of being run inside of a servlet container like Tomcat.

I'm guessing that sometime soon there will be an agreement similar to the WO 5.2 license agreement I linked to above, just modified to reflect 5.3's specifics.

Dave


On Nov 27, 2005, at 5:12 AM, Stefan Pantke wrote:

Another newbie question:

I checked Apple's site regarding licensing terms, but missed to find
the essential point.

If I buy WO at Apple.Store, do I buy  a distribution rights license?

Do I need a distribution license for my own server?

Do I need a license for customer servers? And do I need
one license for one app or once license for each customer?

Are there other essential points, I should take into account?

CU,

s
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