Is JBoss Fuse available under an open source license?

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anon picture anon · May 24, 2013 · Viewed 9.1k times · Source

I've been attempting to find a location from which to download Fuse, but all the links in the Red Hat site seem to indicate that the freely downloadable version of the product is available "for development purposes only". Is there a download location that clearly identifies it as an open source version?

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Janne Mattila picture Janne Mattila · May 27, 2013

JBoss Fuse is open source licensed with the ASL 2.0 license.

You can download and use the product for free for development purpose. But if you want to use it for production, then you need a subscription

Claus, could you clarify this a little?

I was under (false?) assumption that ASL2.0 means that use of the software is free. Free regardless of if its for development or production use. At least http://www.apache.org/foundation/license-faq.html points me in that direction. How can JBoss fuse be ASL2.0 and at the same time forbid use for prodution?

It would also help if I could find out clear license terms somewhere. If I look at http://www.jboss.org/products/fuse or https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/JBoss_Fuse/ I cannot see the license specification. Where can I view the actual license terms of Jboss Fuse?

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