Licensing

Fusion License

The Fusion core, widgets, and MapGuide OS and MapServer support files are released under an MIT license. Here is the license text of our standard header:

{{{/

• <DESCRIPTION> *
• $Id: <FILENAME> <REV> <DATE/TIME> <COMMITER> $ *
• Copyright (c) 2007, DM Solutions Group Inc.
• Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
• copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
• to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
• the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
• and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
• Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: *
• The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included
• in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. *
• THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
• IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
• FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL
• THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
• LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
• FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER
• DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. */}}}

Any files that do not include the above copyright and license can be assumed to be released under the above copyright and license.

Third Party Libraries

Fusion embeds a number of external libraries. They are:

• OpenLayers, from ​http://www.openlayers.org. Released under BSD and Modified BSD, see ​http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/Licensing for details.
• Jx, from ​http://www.jxlib.org. Released under MIT. Jx also includes the Prototype and Scriptaculous libraries and Fusion uses those libraries directly:
  • Prototype, from ​http://prototypejs.org. Released under MIT license, see ​http://dev.rubyonrails.org/browser/spinoffs/prototype/trunk/LICENSE?format=raw
  • Scriptaculous, from ​http://script.aculo.us. Released under MIT license, see ​http://wiki.script.aculo.us/scriptaculous/show/License
• Excanvas, from ​http://excanvas.sourceforge.net/. Released under Apache License V2.0, see ​http://excanvas.sourceforge.net/COPYING

To run Fusion, you also need a separate mapping platform which are available and licensed separately.