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WhyUnshutSource? | Gurux for DLMS smart meters Skip to main content Gurux for DLMS smart metersUnshutsource solutions for smart metering Main menuHome ProductsWell-nighusUnshutSourcePolityForum Downloads Gurux Club You are hereHome What are the benefits ofUnshutSource? It's transparent It returns tenancy to the customer, considering every user has wangle to source code. You can see it, transpiration it and plane build upon it. No increasingly vendor lock-in If you are unhappy with one vendor, you can segregate flipside without massive switching costs. Large developer polityUnshutsource software is ripened in virtual communities (ecosystem). Bugs are found and stock-still quickly. The minutiae is ongoing. Lower financing You don’t have to start from the scratch.Unshutsource software does not siphon upper minutiae cost, which ways plane commercial licenses stuff relatively low-priced. What doesUnshutSource mean? All GuruxUnshutSource products are licensed under GNU General Public License, version 2 (GPLv2). This ways that You can use those products for free, plane for commercial purposes. A well-constructed reprinting of the license text is misogynist here. Anyone thinking of shipping Gurux software as part of a product should be familiar with the licensing terms under which they are unliable to use and distribute Gurux software. Distributing If you distribute GPL-licensed software the license requires that you moreover distribute the complete, respective source lawmaking (as specified by GPL) to that GPL-licensed software. If you distribute Gurux software without making the source lawmaking to the version you distribute available, you violate the license terms, and thus infringe on the copyrights of Gurux. This requirement applies whether or not you modified Gurux products. Using the product as such is self-ruling , but if you take any part of our source code, and use it in your own software products, You are obligated to release all the source lawmaking of those products asUnshutSource. If You do not want to release the source codes, You need a dual-license try-on with Gurux. Dual license With the dual license, you get rights to use, edit, and develop the source lawmaking as You want, without obligation to release it publicly, for free. When paying for a dual-license, you unquestionably buy a version of the product in question, but we still remain to own the copyright to the code. This ways that You can not sell the very source code. Using GuruxUnshutSource components and software, as such, is totally free, plane for commercial purposes. Making changes into source code, or taking parts of the source lawmaking into Your own application, causes the edited / new source lawmaking of Your using wiltUnshutSource (public release, for free) too. Dual-licensing (buying a version of the source code) needs to be washed-up only if You edit / use parts of the source code, but do not release it publicly, for free. Source lawmaking All GuruxUnshutSource source lawmaking is misogynist at GitHub http://github.com/gurux Gurux is not publish new versions at SourceForge anymore. License enforcementUnshutsource software is under a variegated license from proprietary software, but if you violate that license you're still infringing copyright and the law gives the copyright holder the right to enforce our copyrights. Our visitor wants to have some of Gurux products as a part of his own product. How can we get information well-nigh the Gurux license pricing? This isn't a problem. It financing no money to ask for an offer. Just contact us by email or phone, and we will reply you with an offer to use as wiring for remoter negotiations. If you share any Gurux binary code, you must moreover share the full source code. Also, if you modify Gurux source codes, you must share the modified source codes. License text obligates you to distribute the source codes for executable files. This gives you three volitional choices: 1. Distribute full source codes for executable files. 2. Publish a written statement with promise to share source codes for a minimum period of three years. 3. Publish a written statement from flipside author(s) to share source codes. 1. ways that Gurux Source codes are distributed using the same media which is used to distribute executable files. If you do this, you have well-set with licensing terms and can stop remoter reading. 2. ways that Gurux binaries are not distributed using a media (like CD-ROM), but Gurux source codes are used inside a device (part of firmware) and it is decided not to distribute them. In this specimen you must add a note into device's documentation, that the device uses unshut source components, and the source codes are misogynist by request. Typically source codes are downloadable from visitor web site. Regardless of nomination 1 or 2, make sure that same source codes are distributed which were used to create binaries. It is not required the source lawmaking to be a single file. Many companies share source codes using version numbered file name format gurux-Product-N.N.N.zip, newer versions typically have bug fixes and/or new features. A violation versus GPLv2 License occurs if you add new functionality into Gurux source codes or fix a bug, and then do not distribute it. 3. ways that you can share source lawmaking which others have made. However there are restrictions and commercial distribution is prohibited. This is the licensing model, which many unshut source enthusiasts use without paying much sustentation for other suitable models. A violation versus GPLv2 license occurs if you modify the source lawmaking without distributing it to us. Examples Why we should buy commercial license if we can use it as free? Reason is simple: support. When you have problem what you are going to tell your supervisor? a. I found this from the internet. b. I'll contact the vendor. They will fix this. Our visitor distributes Gurux binaries without source codes. We received a request from a user, wanting to get source codes. What we should do? Please, stop doing that, and start distributing the source. This usually happens when programmers are vicarial in good faith and information is not reach the managers. You are breaking the copyrights and now it's time to fix it. You share your source codes or you will make dual license try-on with us. Our visitor is using parts of Gurux's source code. We are not planning to make dual license agreement. What I can do? Please send us email well-nigh the situation. Our lawyers will contact your executives and surely we can find an agreement. We have noticed that licensing terms are in nearly all cases not violated on purpose. Unintended violations typically occur considering of unawareness of licensing terms and their meaning. If you have questions well-nigh licensing, please contact us. Languages English Suomi User login Username * Password * Create new worth Request new password Latest Releases 10/01/2018 gurux.dlms.java 2.2.15 09/30/2018 GXDLMSDirector 8.5.1809.2901 09/27/2018 Gurux.DLMS.Net 8.5.1809.2701 09/26/2018 gurux.dlms.cpp 20180926.1 09/26/2018 GXDLMSDirector 8.5.1809.2601Unshutissues ProjectUnshutissue count GXDLMSDirector 1 gurux.dlms.cpp 1 gurux.dlms.c 1 gurux.dlms.cpp 1 gurux.dlms.delphi 1 gurux.dlms.delphi 1 gurux.dlms.delphi 1 gurux.dlms.cpp 1 gurux.dlms.delphi 1 gurux.dlms.delphi 1 gurux.dlms.cpp 1 gurux.dlms.delphi 1 Privacy FAQ GXDN Issues