WURFL Licensing

WURFL consists of two main parts: the WURFL repository and the APIs to access it. From a licensing perspective, these are totally separated components, each with its own licensing.

APIs: there are a few WURFL APIs available on the Internet. APIs can be classified in two families:

• Standard APIs: these are the APIs released by ScientiaMobile (the company created by Luca Passani and Steve Kamerman, creators of WURFL and Tera-WURFL respectively). Standard APIs work optimally with the repository and support all of the detailed strategies for accurate UA string detection and minimization of false positives.
  Standard APIs come with the ScientiaMobile Evaluation (SME) license.
  After evaluation, companies can acquire a commercial license from ScientiaMobile. A commercial license offers access to API source code.

Repository: The WURFL repository is the effort of ScientiaMobile, a US company which maintains the database and coordinates the contributions from third-parties. ScientiaMobile has the copyright for the WURFL repostiory and the way the data is organized and represented.
WURFL users are NOT allowed to use, copy, display and distribute derivative work of the WURFL repository.
The WURFL data can only be used in connection with one of the official standard APIs released and supported by ScientiaMobile. The first supported version of the ScientiaMobile WURFL API is version 1.3.X.
Companies that intend to use WURFL (either API or data) commercially should contact ScientiaMobile to learn about the licensing options for WURFL.
Additional license options, as well as frequent updates of the wurfl.xml file, are available to commercial licensees of the WURFL framework.