Licensing
​Professional Edition (PE) builds are available through PE Subscription plans. Further commercial support is available with Dev Support plans.
​Community Edition (CE) builds are available free of charge whether your use it to build open source or commercial applications.
The complete source code to Orbeon Forms CE is available free of charge and under real open source terms. The source code to Orbeon Forms PE is available to subscription customers on demand.
With the open source code, you are free as you please to:
extend the platform
build applications on top of the platform
Note however that if you make changes to the existing Orbeon Forms code, you are bound by the terms of the LGPL license, which requires you to redistribute changes to the open source community when you distribute your application.
Yes, a license generated for a given version will work with previous versions of the software as well.
For example if you have a license file for orbeon Forms 2017.2, you can use it with Orbeon Forms 2017.1, and so on.
It depends:
If your license file has a non-blank
subscription-enddate, then you can upgrade to any Orbeon Forms version published before that date. In other words, you can upgrade to any version of Orbeon Forms published while your subscription is active and your license file reflects that.If your license file has a blank
subscription-endbut has a non-blankversion, then you can upgrade to any version up to and including the version specified. NOTE: Only the first two version numbers are checked. If your license file says4.4, then you can use4.4.1, for example. In other words, minor updates are always allowed.If your license file has neither a non-blank
subscription-endnor a non-blankversion, then there are no restrictions on the version of Orbeon Forms you can use.
The above is valid as long as the license hasn't expired, if it has an expiration date specified.
In practice, the Orbeon Forms licenses we produce typically have the following features:
Starting February 2018:
PE Basic licenses
have an
expirationdate with a grace periodhave an empty
versionfieldhave
subscription-startandsubscription-enddates
PE Silver and PE Gold licenses
have an
expirationdate with a grace period (except for grandfathered license renewals)have an empty
versionfieldhave
subscription-startandsubscription-enddates
Until February 2018:
PE Basic licenses
have an
expirationdatehave a blank
versionfielddon't have
subscription-startandsubscription-enddates
PE Silver and PE Gold licenses
don't have an
expirationdatehave a specific
versionfieldhave
subscription-startandsubscription-enddates
Starting February 2018:
Production licenses expire after a grace period (except for grandfathered license renewals).
Non-production Basic licenses (as well as the older Dev licenses) expire after a grace period (except for grandfathered license renewals).
For details, see the New PE Gold Benefits and Perpetual Licenses Grandfathered .
Until February 2018:
Production licenses don't expire.
Non-production Basic licenses (as well as the older Dev licenses) do expire.
You can check whether there is an actual expiration by checking the expiration field of the license file.
The subscription-end field is informative and indicates the end of the support subscription, when applicable.
The first year, both:
a license to install and use the software
one year of support
The second and subsequent years:
additional years of support
​Pricing​
​Services​
[New PE Gold Benefits and Perpetual Licenses Grandfathered
](https://blog.orbeon.com/2018/02/pe-gold-benefits-perpetual-licenses-grandfathered.html)