[imp] Licensing issues

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Roger Thomas <rogtom75 at yahoo.com>:

> What we are charging them for is actually comprised of :
> (i) service charges for customizing the look and feel to meet their
corporate
> image.
> (ii) customizing the inbox and attachments sizes as per user requirements.
> (iii) hosting the data files in our servers.
> (iv) managing the user registration etc
>
> I sincerely hope these does not violate the licensing issue.

No, only if you would distribute the customized code.

> --- Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck at horde.org> wrote:
>
>> Quoting Roger Thomas <rogtom75 at yahoo.com>:
>>
>> > We have 5 clients waiting for us to customize imp for them. These are
>> > going to
>> > be  fairly straight forward headers, footers and possibly some
>> other simple
>> > customizations here and there.
>> >
>> > We are making money out of this. Is this at all OK ? Or do we have to
>> > purchase some form of license from Horde? Please advise.
>>
>> What you want to sell is the service of customizing their installation
>> of Horde
>> for them. Don't worry about the semantics of who downloads what, but as
>> long as
>> that is essentially what you are doing, you are fine.
>>
>> If you were to create your own customized version of IMP, and then to
>> sell it to
>> customers, you would be running up against the licensing.
>>
>> Of course, if any of the customizations that you do are code or interface
>> enhancements that would be useful to the general Horde community, it
>> would be
>> great if you contributed them back to the community, but you are not
>> required
>> to do so if you're not distributing code.

Jan.

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