Usage in a SaaS - Commercial Application

[vigneshbarani24]

I would like to use this in my SaaS Product, ( I Bill my customers for their use of my app ). Can i use this? This says MIT which is fine but just incase, i want to understand

[ybarbaria]

I would like to know me too. I know handsontable is not free so how can this library be free? Someone knows?

[wojciechczerniak]

Hi, I'm from @handsontable and I can answer your questions.

This library is only a wrapper around Handsontable. And as a wrapper its code is licensed under MIT. However it requires a dependency which can have its own license file. We did the same thing with our wrappers for various frameworks. They are released under MIT but you need a license for HoT.

Currently the Handsontable version is locked for https://github.com/valor-software/ng2-handsontable inside its package.json: https://github.com/valor-software/ng2-handsontable/blob/8535379327afbd4edfec3eb26ad9067a4af5916b/package.json#L59-L61

Those versions were released under MIT license and are safe to use with this wrapper as a MIT.

If you would like to use newer version of Handsontable you will need a license. Versions prior v1 are over 18 months old now, the last Handsontable version licensed under MIT is 6.2.2 (December 2018).

Tools like FOSSA are helpful in checking if dependency tree is safe for your requirements.

[ybarbaria]

@wojciechczerniak Thank you for your quick response !