I just realized that BaseX provides some basic information directly on its website : http://basex.org/services/support/. Thats just fine at present time, the important point for me is to be sure that BaseX can, if needed, enter in a contract based tech support. I will re-open this thread, or ask for direct contact, as soon as I will have more precise needs or questions.
Cheers
Jean-Marc
2013/11/18 Christian Grün christian.gruen@gmail.com
As far as I understand, my first option is to ship BaseX together with
its
native BSD licensing. This is probably enough for my needs in a first
phase,
fitting for non critical apps, or POC (proof of concept) for clients.
True; the license gives you all righs to ship BaseX in any free or commercial product, as long as the authors are mentioned in the copyright.
However, I would like to know more about alternative licensing and
technical
support options. Looking to your clients portfolio, I guess that you
provide
such alternatives. Do you have a link, or a doc that could give me a
first
overview of these ?
Just a quick answer: BSD is currently the only license we are offering. Some of our customers take advantage of our technical support when developing commercial systems with BaseX, or they attend trainings (usually 1-3 days) to learn the nuts & bolts of our technology. Due to limited time, documentation on our professional services are quite limited, but we are working on a relaunch of the commercial section (to appear on htttp://basex.io), which may provide some more information.
It may well be that you have some more questions, which are welcome to ask (either directly or on this list). Christian