4.1. Sun Grid Engine

The project uses the Sun Industry Standards Source License, or SISSL. This license is recognized as a free and open license by the Free Software Foundation and the Open Source Initiative respectively. This license is a good license where interoperability and commercial considerations are important. Under the SISSL license a user may do what they like with the source base, such as modifing it and extending it, but the user must maintain compatibility if they want to provide their modified version to others. It is not mandatory for the user to contribute back code changes to the project, though of course this is encouraged. If a user wishes to make available a modified version which is not compatible with the project, the license requires that the licensee must provide a reference implementation of sources which constitute the modification, thereby opening the details of any incompatibility/modification which has been introduced. Additionally the non-compliant modified version cannot use the Grid Engine name.