Your product comparison PDF says that the Community Network and Developer Network levels are Open Source, while the Professional Network and Enterprise Network levels are Visible Source. How are you defining those terms? What is the difference?
Alfresco Open Source is licensed under an MPL derived license with permitted attribution clause (Alfresco Public License: APL). This means you can use the Alfresco as an embedded component in a commercial application (with a non open source license) providing you don’t modify the Alfresco source code and you adhere to the attribution requirements. You can also modify Alfresco source code and redistribute this under an open source license again providing you follow the attribution requirements.
Alfresco Professional and Enterprise Networks are governed by the Alfresco Network Agreement. This provides customers with access to source code but without the redistribution rights of an open source license. Users of this license will obtain the source code for their private use; they can modify the source code but not redistribute the source outside of the company either as a commercial or open source license. They are required to keep the source code confidential.
Alfresco’s policy is to make all approved contributions available under the APL to benefit all users and downloadable free of charge.
For developers who wish to use the Alfresco Professional or Enterprise Networks we can allow them redistribution rights under a commercial OEM agreement (as provided in a similar way by MySQL)
Alfresco Professional and Enterprise Networks are governed by the Alfresco Network Agreement. This provides customers with access to source code but without the redistribution rights of an open source license. Users of this license will obtain the source code for their private use; they can modify the source code but not redistribute the source outside of the company either as a commercial or open source license. They are required to keep the source code confidential.
Alfresco’s policy is to make all approved contributions available under the APL to benefit all users and downloadable free of charge.
For developers who wish to use the Alfresco Professional or Enterprise Networks we can allow them redistribution rights under a commercial OEM agreement (as provided in a similar way by MySQL)
Hi Kevin
Am looking at building my own ECM solution based on Alfresco. At present I am evaluating Alfresco Community Edition for one of our clients. Have the following query
Can I buy Alfresco Professional / Enterprise License and build a custom version and distribute the binary version commercially, along with our own branding ?
