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Right way to use Alfresco Community Edition

davidcarnon
Champ in-the-making
Champ in-the-making
Hello,

I would like to clarify what is allowed to do with the Community Edition and what is not.

As a small company, may I use Alfresco Community Edition under the GPL licence for the following purposes:

- selling a set of features (ie: business features adapted to a specific business) which are provided as an extension of Alfresco: the end-user (most probably a company) is supposed to have an Alfresco installation (either Community or Entreprise edition depending on the level of service chosen by the end user) and the extension is installed on top of the Alfresco installation. The extension will not be distributed under the GPL licence but sold to any buyers interested by the product.

- selling online services running on an Alfresco server (Community Edition) - If it is allowed, is it mandatory to clearly state that the services are running on an Alfresco server ?

Thanks,
David
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hubick
Champ in-the-making
Champ in-the-making
Some links you might find informative (I Am Not A Lawyer)…

selling a set of features which are provided as an extension of Alfresco.. the extension is installed on top of the Alfresco installation.

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0-faq.html#MereAggregation

selling online services running on an Alfresco server (Community Edition) - If it is allowed, is it mandatory to clearly state that the services are running on an Alfresco server?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affero_General_Public_License

When using code licensed purely under the GPL, the only license terms you are bound by are those of the GPL.