Article:		Google Web Toolkit
Subject:		Nice toolkit , shame about the licence
Date:		2006-07-13 04:53:13
From:		paulbrowne
The Google Web Toolkit is a good piece of code , but there is a mistake in the article when it says 'it is available under an apache style licence'. What the Google Website says is: <blockquote> The GWT Java-to-JavaScript compiler and hosted web browser are shipped binary-only and subject to the license below. </blockquote> My reading of 'the license below' is that you are restricted in what you can do (e.g. no redistribution) with these binary components. As a developer , this would restrict my ability to develop solutions based upon the toolkit. Paul , Technology in Plain English (http://www.firstpartners.net/blog)

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• Nice toolkit , shame about the licence
  2007-01-31 07:14:23 Teresa3455
  
  All GWT environment is now licensed under Apache 2.0 license.
  
  

• Nice toolkit , shame about the licence
  2006-07-13 06:13:22 bwp
  
  Thanks for pointing out these specifics. The Java class libraries that comprise the GWT API are included under an Apache style license, but the Java-to-JavaScript compiler and hosted web browser have different licensing restrictions, as summarized at: http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/download.html .
  This site points out that "the code you create with GWT is yours. Google does not assert any intellectual property rights to code or content that you create using GWT." To answer any remaining questions a developer might have about the GWT's licensing ramifications, however, you would have to delve into the fine print and/or have a lawyer look at the entire license's language.