topic Can we use community edition commercially in Alfresco Forum https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-forum/can-we-use-community-edition-commercially/m-p/72629#M23517 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>We want to use the community edition of this software and modify some of it for using it commercially. Please let me know if this is legally possible?</P><P></P><P>&nbsp;Please respond.&nbsp;Thanks.</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 10 Sep 2018 07:10:31 GMT ogatech 2018-09-10T07:10:31Z Can we use community edition commercially https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-forum/can-we-use-community-edition-commercially/m-p/72629#M23517 We want to use the community edition of this software and modify some of it for using it commercially. Please let me know if this is legally possible?&nbsp;Please respond.&nbsp;Thanks. Mon, 10 Sep 2018 07:10:31 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-forum/can-we-use-community-edition-commercially/m-p/72629#M23517 ogatech 2018-09-10T07:10:31Z Re: Can we use community edition commercially https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-forum/can-we-use-community-edition-commercially/m-p/72630#M23518 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advise...</P><P>But, a quick look at the terms of the Lesser GNU Public License (which Alfresco Community Edition uses) shows that you can use it for a commercial purposes and modify it. Check <A href="https://tldrlegal.com/license/gnu-lesser-general-public-license-v3-(lgpl-3)" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">TL;DR Legal for a summary</A> or read the <A href="https://github.com/Alfresco/alfresco-repository/blob/master/LICENSE" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">actual license</A>.</P><P>Now, in addition to the software license you also have to consider the <A href="https://www.alfresco.com/legal/trademark" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">trademark guidelines</A>, or just not call your own commercial product anything resembling "Alfresco".</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 10 Sep 2018 07:21:43 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-forum/can-we-use-community-edition-commercially/m-p/72630#M23518 afaust 2018-09-10T07:21:43Z