Licensing Information

Copyright (C) 1999 Jukka Zitting
Copyright (C) 2000-2001 The Midgard Project Ry

Midgard is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Midgard is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Library General Public License for more details.

The Midgard core libraries are distributed under the GNU Library General Public License (LGPL), a license which permits the software to be freely used so long as it is dynamically linked or the user can relink it to new versions of the libraries. This is the same license used by the Linux C libraries. This licensing scheme qualifies Midgard as free software developed with an Open Source model.

Most Midgard administration interfaces, like Asgard and Aegir, are licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). MidCOM, the Midgard Component Framework is available under GNU LGPL.

Official Documentation and the Midgard website are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license which supports the free usage principles defined by the GPL for code.

Applications developed using the Midgard PHP and XML-RPC interfaces (APIs) can be copyrighted and licensed under any terms by their authors, enabling creation of commercial products and solutions based on the platform.