topic Re: Clarification of GPL Licence in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/clarification-of-gpl-licence/m-p/94435#M64691 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><BLOCKQUOTE class="jive-quote">We are a small software company in Chennai, India. We want to resell Alfresco services under our own name. Right now we include the statement<BR />"This software uses the Alfresco Content management System" in our modified software in the footer. We also provide the source code free to the users if they need it. We are eventually planning to go into bigger installations , so we want to be sure we are doing everything legally….<BR /><BR />Are we legal ?</BLOCKQUOTE><BR /><SPAN>The best answer to your question is the text of the GPL itself: </SPAN><A href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html</A><SPAN>.&nbsp; See, in particular, Section 2.&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Alfresco chose to license its software under the GPL.&nbsp; Therefore, to the extent that you modify the Alfresco software </SPAN><EM>and distribute</EM><SPAN> such modifications, you need to license your derivative works under the GPL, and otherwise abide by the terms of the GPL.&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>This means that you can't take Alfresco's code and make it proprietary, for example, but this doesn't prohibit you from selling the services around the software under your name, provided you follow the requirements of copyright attribution as defined in the GPL.&nbsp; In fact, that's one of the reasons we chose to license our software under the GPL:&nbsp; to encourage a community around the project that is independent of Alfresco, the company.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 20 Jun 2007 22:43:53 GMT mjasay 2007-06-20T22:43:53Z Clarification of GPL Licence https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/clarification-of-gpl-licence/m-p/94434#M64690 We are a small software company in Chennai, India. We want to resell Alfresco services under our own name. Right now we include the statement"This software uses the Alfresco Content management System" in our modified software in the footer. We also provide the source code free to the users if they n Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:24:33 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/clarification-of-gpl-licence/m-p/94434#M64690 pramod 2007-06-19T11:24:33Z Re: Clarification of GPL Licence https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/clarification-of-gpl-licence/m-p/94435#M64691 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><BLOCKQUOTE class="jive-quote">We are a small software company in Chennai, India. We want to resell Alfresco services under our own name. Right now we include the statement<BR />"This software uses the Alfresco Content management System" in our modified software in the footer. We also provide the source code free to the users if they need it. We are eventually planning to go into bigger installations , so we want to be sure we are doing everything legally….<BR /><BR />Are we legal ?</BLOCKQUOTE><BR /><SPAN>The best answer to your question is the text of the GPL itself: </SPAN><A href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html</A><SPAN>.&nbsp; See, in particular, Section 2.&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Alfresco chose to license its software under the GPL.&nbsp; Therefore, to the extent that you modify the Alfresco software </SPAN><EM>and distribute</EM><SPAN> such modifications, you need to license your derivative works under the GPL, and otherwise abide by the terms of the GPL.&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>This means that you can't take Alfresco's code and make it proprietary, for example, but this doesn't prohibit you from selling the services around the software under your name, provided you follow the requirements of copyright attribution as defined in the GPL.&nbsp; In fact, that's one of the reasons we chose to license our software under the GPL:&nbsp; to encourage a community around the project that is independent of Alfresco, the company.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 20 Jun 2007 22:43:53 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/clarification-of-gpl-licence/m-p/94435#M64691 mjasay 2007-06-20T22:43:53Z Re: Clarification of GPL Licence https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/clarification-of-gpl-licence/m-p/94436#M64692 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>The following entry in the Alfresco licensing FAQ may clarify things: </SPAN><A href="http://www.alfresco.com/legal/licensing/faq/#faq10" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.alfresco.com/legal/licensing/faq/#faq10</A></BODY></HTML> Wed, 20 Jun 2007 22:45:40 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/clarification-of-gpl-licence/m-p/94436#M64692 pmonks 2007-06-20T22:45:40Z