TaskForest
A simple, expressive, open-source, text-file-based Job Scheduler with console, HTTP, and RESTful API interfaces.
About
  1. TaskForest - An Executive Summary
  2. A Quick Introduction to Job Schedulers
  3. TaskForest Design Philosophy
  4. Why Text Files are a Good Idea
  5. Comparing TaskForest to cron
  6. TaskForest Licensing and Pricing
  7. Commercial TaskForest Support
  8. System Requirements

TaskForest Licensing and Pricing

TaskForest is distributed free of charge. It's open-source software that's distributed under the Artistic License, the same license under which perl is distributed. For details, please read the LICENSE file.

The above does not apply to the files avilable on the website under the /yui url, to which the following licensing terms apply:

Software License Agreement (BSD License)

Copyright (c) 2009, Yahoo! Inc.
All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use of this software in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

  • Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the
    following disclaimer.
  • Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
  • Neither the name of Yahoo! Inc. nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission of Yahoo! Inc.

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