You may download uPortal and use it on your site at no cost. (Jasig Licensing Policy)
Downloading Options
Quickstart
Just want to try out uPortal? uPortal can be downloaded pre-packaged with Apache Tomcat, Apache Ant, and Maven. This installation option is best suited for evaluation purposes only.
Source
Most development and production environments should be built from the uPortal source. The remainder of this manual will be helpful in learning how to configure, deploy, and develop for the uPortal platform. Pages in this installation section will provide information on basic uPortal build and deployment tasks.
Subversion
uPortal is available for checkout via Jasig subversion. To download the current maintenance release of the uPortal 3.2 branch:
svn co https://www.ja-sig.org/svn/uPortal/tags/rel-3-2-1-GA uPortal
Operating System-specific notes
Windows
On Windows, you must use an unzip utility other than the built-in extractor utility. See: http://www.ja-sig.org/issues/browse/UP-2024
OS X
Move /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/A/Resources/.compatibility/14compatibility.jar
to /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/A/Resources/.compatibility/14compatibility.bk