This page covers the license link on the core, open-source, Financial Industry Business Model (FIB-DM) version.
- If you use the open-source version, your license is the General Public License, GPL 3.0.
- If you have or consider the full commercial FIB-DM, your license is the Jayzed Intelectual Property License Agreement (IPLA).
More than 2,500 users downloaded the FIBO Data Model on the FIB-DM website. In addition, hundreds of derived data models, including migrations to other data modeling tools and added design content, are widely circulated.
They all have the original 2019 release’s copyright and license notes from the Object Management Group (OMG), Enterprise Data Management Council (EDMC), and Jayzed Data Models.
The screenshot image shows how to find the license information in SAP PowerDesigner.
- Locate a data model package in Object Browser and view its properties.
- License and Copyright are PowerDesigner Extended Properties, derived from FIBO annotation properties.
- The value shows the latest entry, the Jayzed license. Click on “…” to see all three license notes.
Other data modeling tools may have different object names (e.g., subject area or submodel for the package) and attributes (e.g., User Defined Property, UDP, or tag). See the FIB Universal website for Sparx EA and ER/Studio example screenshots.
The MIT and GPL open-source license agreements mandate original copyright and license notes on all derived works.
If your FIB-DM copy doesn’t have copyright and license notes on the packages or entities, please add them and notify your distributor.
Note that the Jayzed license only applies to commercial customers. If you don’t have a signed license agreement, you are licensing under the open-source General Public License. The FIB-DM Upgrade page discusses the core vs. full data model and copyleft GPL 3.0 vs. customer license in detail.