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GeoServer is distributed under the GNU General Public License Version 2.0 license:

GeoServer, open geospatial information server
Copyright (C) 2014-2020 Open Source Geospatial Foundation.
Copyright (C) 2001-2014 OpenPlans

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version (collectively, "GPL").

As an exception to the terms of the GPL, you may copy, modify,
propagate, and distribute a work formed by combining GeoServer with the
EMF, XSD and OSHI Libraries, or a work derivative of such a combination, even if
such copying, modification, propagation, or distribution would otherwise
violate the terms of the GPL. Nothing in this exception exempts you from
complying with the GPL in all respects for all of the code used other
than the EMF, XSD and OSHI Libraries. You may include this exception and its grant
of permissions when you distribute GeoServer.  Inclusion of this notice
with such a distribution constitutes a grant of such permissions.  If
you do not wish to grant these permissions, remove this paragraph from
your distribution. "GeoServer" means the GeoServer software licensed
under version 2 or any later version of the GPL, or a work based on such
software and licensed under the GPL. "EMF, XSD and OSHI Libraries" means 
Eclipse Modeling Framework Project and XML Schema Definition software
distributed by the Eclipse Foundation and the OSHI library, all licensed 
under the Eclipse Public License Version 1.0 ("EPL"), or a work based on 
such software and licensed under the EPL.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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For latest contact information of Open Source Geospatial Foundation see the website at https://www.osgeo.org. Current email is info@osgeo.org and address is OSGeo, 14525 SW Millikan #42523, Beaverton, Oregon, United States, 97005-2343.

The full GPL license is available in this directory in the file GPL.md

Additional Libraries and Code used

GeoServer uses several additional libraries and pieces of code. We are including the appropriate notices in this file. We'd like to thank all the creators of the libraries we rely on, GeoServer would certainly not be possible without them. There are also several LGPL libraries that do not require us to cite them, but we'd like to thank GeoTools - https://geotools.org, JTS - https://locationtech.github.io/jts/ WKB4J https://wkb4j.sourceforge.net, OpenPDF - https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF, and J. David Eisenberg's PNG encoder https://www.catcode.com/pngencoder/

NeuQuant Neural-Net Quantization Algorithm

GeoServer also thanks Anthony Dekker for the NeuQuant Neural-Net Quantization Algorithm. The copyright notice is intact in the source code and also here:

/* NeuQuant Neural-Net Quantization Algorithm
 * ------------------------------------------
 *
 * Copyright (c) 1994 Anthony Dekker
 *
 * NEUQUANT Neural-Net quantization algorithm by Anthony Dekker, 1994.
 * See "Kohonen neural networks for optimal colour quantization"
 * in "Network: Computation in Neural Systems" Vol. 5 (1994) pp 351-367.
 * for a discussion of the algorithm.
 *
 * Any party obtaining a copy of these files from the author, directly or
 * indirectly, is granted, free of charge, a full and unrestricted irrevocable,
 * world-wide, paid up, royalty-free, nonexclusive right and license to deal
 * in this software and documentation files (the "Software"), including without
 * limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
 * and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons who receive
 * copies from any such party to do so, with the only requirement being
 * that this copyright notice remain intact.
 */

GifEncoder

The GeoServer Project also thanks J. M. G. Elliot for his improvements on Jef Poskanzer's GifEncoder. Notice is included below on his Elliot's release to public domain and Poskanzer's original notice (which is new BSD). Source code is included in GeoServer source, with modifications done by David Blasby for The Open Planning Project (now OpenPlans).

Since Gif89Encoder includes significant sections of code from Jef Poskanzer's GifEncoder.java, I'm including its notice in this distribution as requested (appended below).

As for my part of the code, I hereby release it, on a strictly "as is" basis, to the public domain.

J. M. G. Elliott 15-Jul-2000

---- from Jef Poskanzer's GifEncoder.java ----

// GifEncoder - write out an image as a GIF
//
// Transparency handling and variable bit size courtesy of Jack Palevich.
//
// Copyright (C) 1996 by Jef Poskanzer <jef@acme.com>.  All rights reserved.
//
// Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
// modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
// are met:
// 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
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//    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
//    documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
//
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// FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
// DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS
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// HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
// LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
// OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
// SUCH DAMAGE.
//
// Visit the ACME Labs Java page for up-to-date versions of this and other
// fine Java utilities: https://www.acme.com/java/

JAI ImageIO

JAI ImageIO jars from Sun are also included. These are released under a BSD license (new). Notice is below:

Initial sources

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Jetty

GeoServer also includes binaries and from Jetty, the standard version can be found at https://www.eclipse.org/jetty/, released under an OSI-approved artistic license. We include the license completely, as some versions will be distributed without full source.

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Prototype library (MIT License)

GeoServer includes a few snippets from the Prototype library (www.prototypejs.org), under a MIT license:

Copyright (c) 2005-2007 Sam Stephenson

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Apache License

GeoServer uses a number of libraries licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. These include Spring - https://www.springsource.org/, a number of Apache commons libraries - https://jakarta.apache.org/commons/ whose jars we distribute and include in our source tree under lib/. Also included as libraries are log4 https://logging.apache.org/log4j/docs/index.htmlj, batik https://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik/, and xerces https://xerces.apache.org/xerces-j/.

Note there is some disagreement as to whether GPL and Apache 2.0 are compatible see https://www.apache.org/licenses/GPL-compatibility.html for more information. We hope that something will work out, as GeoServer would not be possible without apache libraries.

Notice for apache license is included below:

Apache License Version 2.0, January 2004 https://www.apache.org/licenses/

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GeoServer is build using a number of eclipse libraries including emf and xsd made available under the Eclipse Public License.

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Java Service Launcher (JSL)

GeoServer uses the Java Service Launcher (JSL) by Michael Roeschter as a wrapper to install GeoServer as a Windows service. The following license applies to this software (taken from https://roeschter.de/#license):

JAVA SERVICE LAUNCHER (JSL) is PUBLIC DOMAIN.

This means the software is FREE. Free means you may use or reuse 
any part of the software. You may package it with commercial software 
and use it in commercial and business environments. 
You may NOT claim copyright for the JSL software and it's source code 
or any parts of the software and source. 
Any derived work may retain a copyright or be commercialized as long 
as the JSL parts of it are not covered by this copyright.

You may distribute derived work in executable form and not include 
the JSL source code if JSL constitues only a minor part of the 
intellectual work (in other words, you can take the executable and 
embed it in a Java application you distribute commercially), but you 
may not charge in particular for or discriminate against the use of 
the parts derived from JSL.

Disclaimer: 
This software is supplied AS IS with no claim of fitness for purpose.