You may operate your own BSCW server as an extension of a suitable Web server running on a Linux or Windows Server platform.
The BSCW server software is distributed by OrbiTeam Software GmbH & Co. KG, Bonn, Germany, under licence from the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology (FIT).
You may download the BSCW server software (https://www.bscw.de/en/classic/#download) 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 & Co. KG.
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.
BSCW provides support for HTML editing based on the
CKEditor (https://ckeditor.com/ Copyright ©
2003-2011 Frederico Knabben) which is integrated with the BSCW software. The
CKEditor is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public Licence (see
https://www.opensource.org/licenses/lgpl-license.php).
The JavaScript calendar integrated into BSCW is based on the DHTML Calendar 1.0 (http://www.dynarch.com/projects/calendar Copyright © 2002-2005 Mihai Bazon, http://www.bazon.net/mishoo) and distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html).
Direct editing of BSCW documents with local editors and applications is based on the Zope External Editor Client (Copyright © 2008 Thierry Benita, Jean-Nicolas Bes, atReal, Casey Duncan and Zope Corporation, https://www.zope.dev/), which is not part of the BSCW software, but has to be installed by the user. The Zope client was licensed under the Zope Public License (ZPL).
For a quicker document search, BSCW supports the optional integration of the indexing service PyLucene (https://lucene.apache.org/pylucene/). PyLucene is provided by the Apache Software Foundation under the Apache License.
For the visualization of time related objects in a Gantt chart like manner, BSCW integrates the Timeline component of the SIMILE widgets developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (https://www.simile-widgets.org/timeline/). Timeline is open source software and is licensed under the BSD licence.
Further, BSCW includes software developed by the Apache
Software Foundation
(https://www.apache.org/).