http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ http://swik.net/License%3Aproprietary License:proprietary <p>Proprietary software, unlike <a class="wikilink" href="http://swik.net/open-source">open source</a> software, does not allow for free distribution of source code.</p> <p>Criticism of proprietary software includes arguments that it locks users in to a vendor, it&#8217;s too expensive, or it may be a security risk as it&#8217;s not clear what the software does.</p> <p>Some open source projects <a class="wikilink" href="http://swik.net/dual-license">dual license</a> their software under a proprietary license in order to allow users to escape licensing conditions, such as the <a class="wikilink" href="http://swik.net/License:GPL"><span class="caps">GNU</span> General Public License</a>&#8217;s <a class="wikilink" href="http://swik.net/copyleft">copyleft</a> clause. Notable examples of this are <a class="wikilink" href="http://swik.net/MySQL">MySQL</a> and <a class="wikilink" href="http://swik.net/Sendmail">Sendmail</a>.</p> <p>In many cases, open source software is a response to proprietary software, creating a version of a project with the ability to freely modify and distribute as a feature. For example, <a class="wikilink" href="http://swik.net/Linux">Linux</a> was developed and championed as a free alternative to proprietary <a class="wikilink" href="http://swik.net/UNIX"><span class="caps">UNIX</span></a> systems.</p> Proprietary software, unlike open source software, does not allow for free distribution of source code. Criticism of proprietary software includes arguments that it locks users in to a vendor, it&#8217;s too expensive, or it may be a security risk as it&#8217;s not clear what the software does. Some open source projects dual license their software under a proprietary license in order to allow users to escape licensing conditions, such as the GNU General Public License&#8217;s copyleft clau http://swik.net/License:proprietary license license:proprietary Tue, 09 May 2006 15:31:38 -0700 Sat, 10 Mar 2007 11:40:41 -0800 http://swik.net/JIRA JIRA <p><span class="caps">JIRA</span> is a <a class="wikilink" href="http://swik.net/license:proprietary">proprietary</a> bug tracking system written in <a class="wikilink" href="http://swik.net/J2EE"><span class="caps">J2EE</span></a> by Atlassian Software, who also make the proprietary wiki Confluence.</p> <p>Both of the products, while proprietary and available under commercial licensing terms, are freely licensed by Atlassian to open source projects and non-profits. These people may contact Atlassian to obtain the free license.</p> <p><span class="caps">JIRA</span> supports various features, including <span class="caps">RSS</span>, however <span class="caps">RSS</span> feeds in <span class="caps">JIRA</span> must be appended with &#8220;os_username=name&#38;os_password=pass&#8221;, to generate an authentication token for a secured <span class="caps">JIRA</span> server.</p> <h2>See Also</h2> <ul> <li><a class="wikilink" href="http://swik.net/Bugzilla">Bugzilla</a> &#8211; a free and open source bug tracking solution used by high profile projects such as <a class="wikilink" href="http://swik.net/Tomcat">Tomcat</a> and <a class="wikilink" href="http://swik.net/Mozilla">Mozilla</a>.</li> </ul> JIRA bug-tracking license:proprietary free-for-opensource atlassian Wed, 28 Jun 2006 12:44:47 -0700