[imp] Licensing issues

[Roger Thomas]

Not that we do not want to distribute the code, but we dont think they are
useful for the public. For example, our Designers added some entries into
~/horde/config/html.php so that the colors reflect OUR CLIENT CORPORATE IMAGE.
We made changes to common_header.php and common_footer.php to include links to
other parts of OUR CLIENTS PORTAL.

LOGICALLY, to us, these are NOT what the opensource communities want to look
at.

But hey, if we do violate the licensing issue, pls let us know what we can do
to protect ourselves. Best rgds.

--
roger


--- Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org> wrote:

> 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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