In the case of commercial use please take a look at the product licences (especially MySQL), from the XAMPP point of view commercial use is also free. Please check every single licence of the contained products to get an overview of what is, and what isn't, allowed. But it is only the compilation of XAMPP that is published under GPL. XAMPP is a compilation of free software (comparable to a Linux distribution), it's free of charge and it's free to copy under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence. There are currently distributions for Windows, Linux, and OS X. In the case of commercial use please take a look at the product licenses, from the XAMPP point of view commercial use is also free. To make it convenient for developers, XAMPP is configured with all features turned on. The goal of XAMPP is to build an easy to install distribution for developers to get into the world of Apache.

It's nice that quitting XAMPP manager-osx.app does not stop the services.The XAMPP open source package has been set up to be incredibly easy to install and to use.

approx 329 add-on packages like WordPress via Softaculous installer.

Control panel include start/stop/restart/configure.text file + access log + error log + restore default config + PHP version control + PHP extension control.

Preference available for 'Start on Session Startup'.

Quitting AMPSS will stop the Apache/FTP/MySQL services.

approx 20 add-on packages like Wordpress via Bitnami.

Control panel is simple start/stop/restart/configure.text file.

No Preferences on the XAMPP manager-osx.app Mercury Mail Transport System 4.63 FileZilla FTP Server 0.9.41 Tomcat 7.0.107 Strawberry Perl 5.32.0.1 Portable.

After starting the Apache/FTP/MySQL services, quitting the XAMPP manager does not quit the services.

(which is my current primary web), i have the following observations:

Relative to AMPPS Apache HTTP, MySQL, PHP, Perl, and Python web stack.

XAMPP v1.8.3 (PHP 5.5.11) will install an Apache HTTP, MySQL, PHP, and Perl web stack.

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