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Licensing Information

The Newton project software is AGPL (Affero General Public License). If your software is AGPL compliant, then you have no obligation to pay us for the licenses. We would however appreciate you telling us you are using it as we are genuinely interested in understanding the level of uptake and your use case examples. There may also be good opportunities for partnership and co-marketing.

The formal terms of the AGPL license can be found on here on the GNU Project website. Please note that the AGPL can be restrictive, and if it doesn't meet your needs you might be better served by our commercial product, Infiniflow.

Please note that the GNU AGPL is not compatible with GPLv2. It is also technically not compatible with GPLv3. In a strict sense, you cannot take code released under the GNU AGPL and use it under the terms of GPLv3. You are, however, allowed to combine separate modules or source files released under both of those licenses in a single project, which will provide many programmers with all the permission they need to make the programs they want. See section 13 of both licenses for details.

For clarity:

1.	Newton is free use for those who are AGPL. If your application is licensed under AGPL, you are free to ship the Newton AGPL software with your application ('application' means any type of software application, system, tool or utility). You do not need a separate signed agreement with Paremus, the AGPL license is sufficient.

2.	Under the AGPL license, you must release the complete source code for the application that is built on Newton. You do not need to release the source code for components that are generally installed on the operating system on which your application runs, such as system header files or libraries.

3.	Free use for those who never copy, modify or distribute. As long as you never distribute Netwon in any way, you are free to use it as a runtime for your application, irrespective of whether your application is under AGPL license or not. We would, however, encourage you to take a look at the commercial product Infiniflow, which is aggressively priced and offers a number of additional features for use in production (e.g. enhanced scalability and performance capabilities, a full JMX management framework and roles based security, in addition to commercial support).

4.	You are not allowed to use any Infiniflow Runtime Services or Operational Services with Newton. These can only be used with the commercial product Infiniflow.

5.	You are allowed to modify Newton source code any way you like as long as the distributed derivative work is licensed under the AGPL as well.

6.	You are allowed to copy Newton binaries and source code, but when you do so, the copies will fall under the AGPL license.

Academic Institutions, Not for Profit and Private Individuals

If you represent a non-profit organization or an academic institution, we recommend you publish your application as an open source / free software project using the AGPL license. Thereby, you are free to use the Newton software free of charge under the AGPL license. We believe that if you have strong reasons to not publish your application in accordance with the AGPL, you should purchase commercial Infiniflow licenses.

If you are a private individual then you are free to use the Newton software for your personal applications as long as you do not distribute them. If you distribute them, you must make a decision between the AGPL and the commercial license.

Please note that even if you ship a free demo version of your own application, the above rules apply.

Important Notice

Please note that Paremus can only give suggestions on which license is right for you. Ultimately the final judgment can only be made only by a court of law. We do, however, recommend the commercial license to all commercial and government organizations. This frees you from the requirements of the AGPL license and any uncertainties you may have.

To anyone in doubt, we recommend the commercial license. We have priced Infiniflow aggressively to encourage the uptake of the commercial product and the additional benefits it offers.

If you are unsure

If you have any questions about Licensing of Newton or Infiniflow, please contact Paremus to explore the options available for your specific requirements.

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