License

Licensing and copyright

Gliimly is Free Open Source software licensed under Apache License 2.

Gliimly is copyright (c) 2019-now Gliim LLC.

Discussion

The following discussion is not legal advice.

Gliimly makes use of the following dynamically-linked libraries (with copyright by their respective owners), and only if your application actually uses them:

LGPL-licensed MariaDB C connector (https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb-connector-c/),
Postgres-licensed Postgres C library (https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/libpq.html),
SQLite (public domain) SQLite C library (https://www.sqlite.org/docs.html),
Curl-licensed Curl library (https://curl.se/),
BSD-licensed PCRE2 (regex) library (https://www.pcre.org/),
OpenSSL-licensed SSL/crypto library (https://www.openssl.org/).
Open Market Licensed FastCGI library (https://fastcgi-archives.github.io/FastCGI_Developers_Kit_FastCGI.html).

You would install these libraries yourself (they are not distributed with Gliimly) as dependencies for compiling the source code. Gliimly does not link to any outside static libraries.

Gliimly uses FNV-1a hash function, which is released in the public domain (see wikipedia page) and is not patented (see Landon Noll's web page).

Gliimly source code uses SPDX, an open ISO standard for communicating sofware bill of material information (such as licenses), to improve on open source licensing compliance for companies and communities.