The new starting point for Broadleaf Commerce projects is via our Spring Boot project located at https://github.com/BroadleafCommerce/CommunityDemo.
This Maven project is meant to be used as a solid started project for any Broadleaf Commerce application. It has many sensible defaults set up along with examples of how a fully functioning eCommerce site based on Broadleaf might work.
One typical way of using this project would be to follow the Getting Started Guide, which would walk you through using our pre-bundled Eclipse workspace.
However, if you would like to utilize your own workspace or IDE configuration, you may prefer to fork this project. This would give you the added benefit of being able to pull in upstream changes as we work to improve the DemoSite.
Note: If you are going to fork this project, we recommend basing your work on the master branch, and not the develop branch. develop is our ongoing development branch and there are no guarantees of stability on it.
The Broadleaf Commerce Demo Site is itself licensed under the Broadleaf Fair Use License Agreement - Version 1.0 (http://license.broadleafcommerce.org/fair_use_license-1.0.txt). The Broadleaf Commerce core and module libraries have different license models you should be aware of.
Broadleaf Commerce core libraries, as well as the menu library, are released under a dual license format. They may be used under the terms of the Fair Use License 1.0 (http://license.broadleafcommerce.org/fair_use_license-1.0.txt) unless the restrictions on use therein are violated and require payment to Broadleaf, in which case the Broadleaf End User License Agreement (EULA), Version 1.1 (http://license.broadleafcommerce.org/commercial_license-1.1.txt) shall apply. Alternatively, the Commercial License may be replaced with a mutually agreed upon license between you and Broadleaf Commerce.
Various commercial modules that are also available (for instance, price list management) are released under the applicable commercial license. These are not included with the core Broadleaf framework.