hi, i'm a website developer who will build website for my clients. my question is can i use open source xampp in my development process, because this is considered for commercial purpose?
thanks!
The license and more on the XAMPP home page:The XAMPP website wrote:The license
XAMPP is a compilation of free software (comparable to a Linux distribution), it's free of charge and it's free to copy under the terms of the GNU General Public License. But it is only the compilation of XAMPP that is published under GPL. Please check every single license of the contained products to get an overview of what is, and what isn't, allowed.
In the case of commercial use please take a look at the product licenses (especially MySQL), from the XAMPP point of view commercial use is also free.
Izzy wrote:I am also a website developer and I use XAMPP on my PC when developing and testing my client websites, which is perhaps one of the intentions of the XAMPP developers when creating the package.
Your clients, and mine, may well be hosting their websites on a Linux based Apache web server - the only major difference is the OS being used.
It is not intended that XAMPP be used as web server in a production environment ie. as a 'permanently connected to the Internet' web server on a local PC - some security issues that are not addressed in a default installation can be disastrous.
The license and more on the XAMPP home page:The XAMPP website wrote:The license
XAMPP is a compilation of free software (comparable to a Linux distribution), it's free of charge and it's free to copy under the terms of the GNU General Public License. But it is only the compilation of XAMPP that is published under GPL. Please check every single license of the contained products to get an overview of what is, and what isn't, allowed.
In the case of commercial use please take a look at the product licenses (especially MySQL), from the XAMPP point of view commercial use is also free.
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html
By the way, you can make a helpful donation for it's use if you feel it would help compensate for it's commercial use, which would be received with thanks and greatly appreciated - details at the top of the above home page.
Izzy wrote:What more is needed and more importantly what more do you need to make a simple decision that is taken by millions on the Internet daily?
Is it that you want someone to tell you that it is quite legal to do what ever you want to do, then you have a scapegoat or an excuse to cry out to those big heavy thug like copyright police when they smash down your door in the middle of the night, that "some on a website told me it was ok to do this" before they cart you off to the copyright offender's concentration camp, where they will beat you daily until you confess that you broke the copyright laws yourself?
No sense of humor either I see.blueberry wrote:sorry, i never think like this...you are thinking too much in this case...
What more confirmation do you need other than that which has already been provided both here and on the above web site.blueberry wrote:i just need more confirmation in making my decision, because don't want to do any illegal things...
Izzy wrote:No sense of humor either I see.blueberry wrote:sorry, i never think like this...you are thinking too much in this case...What more confirmation do you need other than that which has already been provided both here and on the above web site.blueberry wrote:i just need more confirmation in making my decision, because don't want to do any illegal things...
If you are so indecisive then please e-mail the developers, addresses in the Contact page of the above site or simply PM Oswald the forum admin and lead developer or kvo or Weidmann, with your commercial use concerns.
You did not nor could ever offend me - I am just frustrated and impatient by having to repeat what has already been clearly stated.blueberry wrote:sorry, i have no intention to offend here. i appologize if i have unconsciously offended you.
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