[Dspace-general] Use of DSpace by non-research institutions

[James Rutherford]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 08:05:45AM -0300, Halley Pacheco de Oliveira wrote:
> In the home page of DSpace is written that "DSpace is an open source
> digital repository software system for RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS." and
> that "DSpace is available under the BSD open source license for
> RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS to run as-is, or to modify and extend as
> needed."

I think the emphasis here is on who it is targeted at, not on who is
eligible to use it :)

> In my case, I work for the local government (C?mara Municipal do Rio
> de Janeiro - http://www.camara.rj.gov.br/), a kind of City Council,
> and I'm interested in using DSpace as a digital library for law
> projects and other internal materials.

You might be interested to note that it is already being used at the
Superior Tribunal de Justiça. (http://www.stj.gov.br)

> There will be any license restrictions?

None at all; just the general BSD stuff.

Jim

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