Free open source software

The DSpace open source platform is available for free to anyone and can be downloaded from the sourceforge open source software repository.

The code is currently liscensed under the BSD open source license(http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php ). This means that any organization can use, modify, and even integrate the code into their commercial application without paying any licensing fees.  Of course we hope if you improve upon the software, you will contribute that code back to the community for everyone's benefit.

Today there are more than 80 developers around the world contributing code, and there are fifteen lead developers (called committers) that work together to plan releases and integrate new features and bug fixes submitted by the community.