If you are using the GPL, you must make your enhancements available to all under terms compatible with the GPL. If you are using a commercial license, you may keep your modifications private. You are however, very welcome to share your enhancements with us for inclusion in future releases. See the Developers section for details.

The contributors agreement ensures that if your patches are included in the commercial version, they will always be included in the open source version. All patches are examined for suitability and sometimes several individuals submit similar patches. As such, we cannot guarantee that your code will be included in the product.

If you distribute your application and you choose the GPL Appweb license, then you must also make your source code that is linked with the Appweb program available to others.

If you do not modify the Appweb distribution and do not link any code (statically or dynamically) with Appweb, then you should be able to use the GPL license without having to share your code.

If you do modify Appweb in any way or you link code with Appweb and want to keep your source code private, please consider the Embedthis commercial licenses for that purpose.

Yes, if you make your source code that links with Appweb available to all.

Yes you can prototype and develop internally using the GPL license. If you distribute your product, you must abide by the GPL or get a commercial license.

If you want to keep your source code private or if you want support and a commercial warranty, then a commercial license is probably necessary.

If you are using the GPL license, you can link in code that has a GPL-compatible license. If you are using the commercial license, you can link in any non-GPL code.