What other licenses do you need to run Kuali? Do they diminish the independence from commercially licensed software?

Kuali software is licensed entirely as open source under the ECL 2.0. Further, Kuali software makes use of other free and open source software as noted in the Acknowledgments. In addition, anyone using the software will need to separately license other parts of the software stack such as the operating system, database, application server, etc. Kuali runs on a full open source reference stack that includes Linux, MySQL, Apache, and Tomcat.