Can I change the DSpace system?
The BSD distribution license for the DSpace system allows you to make any changes you like to the copy of the system at your organization. The system was designed to make adapting it for individual organizations as easy as possible. In fact, several modules in DSpace will probably need to be customized for a given organization (e.g., authorization and authentication), and some organizations may want to substitute the open-source tools supplied with DSpace with different ones (e.g., replace postgreSQL with mySQL or Oracle). At the moment, substituting a different RDBMS for postgreSQL will require a few changes to the systems Browse module. There is documentation available explaining these interdependencies where they exist.
