You may operate your own BSCW server as an extension of a suitable Web server running on a Unix or Windows NT platform.

The BSCW server software is distributed by OrbiTeam Software GmbH, Bonn, Germany, under licence from the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology (FIT).

You may download the BSCW server software from http://bscw.fit.fraunhofer.de and use it free of charge for a 90 day evaluation period. Starting with the 91st day, usage of your own BSCW server requires a licence. The distribution of BSCW licences is handled by OrbiTeam Software GmbH.

Schools and universities may apply for royalty free licences for educational purposes. Other licensees have to pay a licence fee for use of BSCW beyond the evaluation period. Please contact license@orbiteam.de if you need further information regarding the licensing procedure.

Acknowledgements

BSCW provides support for HTML editing based on third party software that is integrated with the BSCW software. Currently two different HTML editors are supported: FCKEditor (http://www.fckeditor.net/) which is Copyright © 2003-2005 Frederico Caldeira Knabben and is licensed under GNU Lesser General Public Licence (see http://www.opensource.org/licenses/lgpl-license.php), and pinEdit (http://www.pintexx.com/) which is Copyright © 2005 Pintexx GmbH and is licensed under OEM licence.

Further, BSCW includes software developed by the Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/).