Java - Which Business Intelligence (BI) platform can I embed with my commercial software for free?

Question

I am developing a java application and I want to use:

• Reporting
• Analysis
• Data Mining
• Data Integration

tools to be shipped with my commercial application that I am NOT going to sell as an open source application.

So I want to know which tools I can use in my app.

Actually I am evaluating Pentaho and JasperReports but I don't understand licensing issues. Some comes under GPL, some under LGPL, some under CPL... so I am very confused about those.

Answer 1

... but I don't understand licensing issues.

If you are going to build a commercial application on top of someone elses platform or libraries, you need to understand the licensing issues, irrespective of whether the libraries are open source or closed source. There are no short cuts here. You need to do the research, understand the licenses and make your decisions based on that understanding.