You may operate your own BSCW server as an extension of a suitable Web server running on a Unix, 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 (http://www.bscw.de/english/download.html) 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 (http://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
http://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 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html).
The mobile user interface is based on the jQuery Mobile Framework (licensed under the terms of the MIT License, see http://jquerymobile.com/). The mobile user interface also includes the datepicker plugin (https://github.com/jtsage/jquery-mobile-datebox Copyright © JTSage) licensed under CC 3.0 Attribution license.
The BSCW desktop widgets are based on Adobe AIR and include the Adobe AIR SDK source files and sample code, Copyright © Adobe Systems Inc., licensed under the Adobe AIR SDK License Agreement (http://www.adobe.com/special/products/air/tools/sdk/eula/).
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, http://www.zope.org/), which is not part of the BSCW software, but has to be installed by the user. The Zope client is licensed under the Zope Public License (ZPL).
For a quicker document search, BSCW supports the optional integration of the indexing service PyLucene (http://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 (http://www.simile-widgets.org/timeline/). Timeline is open source software and is licensed under the BSD licence.
For collaborative editing of Web pages, BSCW offers to integrate the MoinMoin wiki engine (see http://moinmo.in/), which is licensed under GNU General Public Licence.
Further, BSCW includes software developed by the Apache
Software Foundation
(http://www.apache.org/).