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Alfresco branding and trademarks?

gronfelt
Champ in-the-making
Champ in-the-making
I'm trying to get my head around the licensing terms and just want to see if I'm getting it right.

What I'm looking at is providing an Alfresco-powered service to a third party customer. This means that I will not redistribute any binaries to the customer, I will run Alfresco software on my servers, allowing the customer to access the service. As far as I understand that means that I'm not obliged to publish any modifications I make to the software (I'm not saying that I won't do that anyway, but I'm just trying to get the facts straight here). Is that right?

When it comes to branding and trademark there are basically two possibilies here, if I understand things correctly:

1: I make no modifications to the software, I simply install and run it. In that case I must not remove any Alfresco trademarks, right? Does that include branding, such as logos?

2: I make modifications of some kind, in which case I must not keep any Alfresco trademarks, but instead must provide a text stating that this software makes use of Alfresco code.

Am I getting it right?

The next question then would be: What is considered a modification of the software? Clearly any modifications to the source, prior to build would be considered changes to the software, but what about adding or modifying components or visual elements after building the source?

Say for instance that I remove or replace the Alfresco logo and change the color scheme of the Share client, am I allowed to do that and what would the impacts be when it comes to the trademarks?
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mjasay
Champ in-the-making
Champ in-the-making
As you describe it, you don't need to contribute anything back, as it sounds like you'll be delivering the software as a service. 

Also, for trademarks, you shouldn't use the Alfresco logo as it implies that you're delivering an *Alfresco* service, and you're not: you're simply using the Alfresco Community/community software.  So, unless you have a relationship with Alfresco, it's important not to use the trademarks, which implies that you do.

If you find there's somewhere that we can help, please ask.  We have a lot of great OEM partners and we'd like to include you in that group, but we're primarily glad that you're getting value from the software.

zladuric
Champ on-the-rise
Champ on-the-rise
A silly question, maybe. Does this include the "© 2005-2009 Alfresco Software Inc. All rights reserved. " stuff? I should/can remove that too or?
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