license to use/distribute

[Bryan]

My company is a software company. I would like to use the JFreeChart java classes in our software to display some of the result of calculations done by our software. My use of the JFreeChart software will be to write my own java class that will be put into my own jar file, and will lbe linked to the JFreeChart jar files. I will be using the JFreeChart classes to build my graphs to display data.

I have read the license but I am not sure if I understand one issue. My company sells our software for a profit. Is there any problem with my company using JFreeChart to display data? We would include the JFreeChart sources and jar files in our distribution with the JFreeChart GNU Lesser License. It seems from my reading of the license that this would be okay.

thanks
Bryan

[David Gilbert]

You are correct. You can sell a product that uses JFreeChart as long as you distribute the source code for JFreeChart (including any changes you make), and include a copy of the licence (to make it clear that there is NO WARRANTY for the software). You are not required to distribute the source code for your application.

Regards,

DG.