License

Hipe Licensing

Webkit is already GPL so the Hipe display server will be too. That means that you need to comply with the terms of the GNU General Public License in order to modify or redistribute the server component, although it is free to do so. There will also be an additional attribution clause for large corporations, who should acknowledge their use of Hipe in product documentation.

However, the Hipe API which you use if you're writing an application that uses Hipe, is distributed freely with as little restriction as possible. That means you can write your own graphical applications for Hipe without worrying about license conditions.

Examples:

• If you're an application developer: you can write and distribute your own Hipe applications however you want, freely, without any restrictions.
• If you're an OS distributor: you can distribute the Hipe server system freely under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
• If you're a large OEM corporation: You can include the Hipe server software freely in your product subject to the terms of the GNU General Public License, with a short attribution included in your product documentation. You can also freely develop your own proprietory (closed-source or otherwise) software that uses the services Hipe provides.