License Terms

The license terms for all software components owned by limes datentechnik gmbh® can be found in LICENSE(.txt) in the installation folder doc/txt or in the partitioned dataset HLQ.FLAM.DOCTXT. Additional license information for external libraries used by this software can be found in ABOUT(.txt). The replacement of external libraries (LGPL) is described following the changelog in the file README(.txt). All license terms of the external libraries are included as files (LICxxxxx(.txt)) in doc/txt folder or in HLQ.FLAM.DOCTXT partitioned dataset.

All old FLAM components till version 4 are completely owned by limes datentechnik gmbh ®. Only on Linux systems the glibc is used in unmodified form as prerequisite (part of the operating system, not part of the distribution) based on the LGPL license. The old FLAM4 components don't provide additional about and version commands or functions.

The service provider interfaces (exits, extensions) of FLAM are owned completely by limes datantechnik gmbh® and provided to our users for individual extension to this software. The driver is conforming to this license terms but LIMES® is not responsible for such individual implementations which are not part of our distributen. Our own implementations against these SPIs (e.g. FAVECAV, PKCS#11, IBM-CCA/ICSF) are in sync with the stated license terms here.

A lot of this information is generated in the package build process and can be requested over the corresponding built-in commands of our utilities or the corresponding functions of the APIs. To request the current valid state, please use the command or functions below (there are more APIs with analog functions available):

 COMMAND            API 1      API 2      ...   API n
 > flam4 license   fcblic()   FCRLIC()   ...   fliconv_license()
 > flam4 about     fcbabo()   FCRABO()   ...   fliconv_about()
 > flam4 version   fcbvsn()   FCRVSN()   ...   fliconv_version()

The about and version information are also added as appendix to the manual's provided by limes datentechnik gmbh®.

The version information contains version, release and revision number of each component followed by the current build number. The versioning of the different components is independent of each other. The build number must be the same for each component and must correspond to the build number of the installation package. If the build number is not identical for all compiled and linked components, then the installation is wrong.