[EP-tech] Is EPrints 3.4 and beyond open source software?

[Ian Stuart]

You need to distinguish between the software platform that is EPrints, 
and the Software-as-a-Service that EPrints Services provides.

EPrints Services provides hosted solutions for repositories, and they 
provide that service using the EPrints software application. That 
service may have custom extensions to the core code [which may, or may 
not, be made available to the wider community], and is made hosted via 
some number of infrastructure platforms.

EPrints Services also provides some support to the wider community [free 
of charge].

EPrints Services is, obviously, a business - and thus has to ensure that 
its activities are sustainable with regard to its incomes [and that 
balance is not just fiscal]

"managed availability" could refer to either the infrastructure 
platform, or the personnel.

But the software platform, the collection of Perl code that is EPrints - 
that's on GitHub: https://github.com/eprints

-- 
Ian Stuart.
Bibliographics and Multimedia Service Delivery team,
EDINA,
The University of Edinburgh.

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