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distribution of openkm

PostPosted:Tue Jan 24, 2012 7:48 am
by himani
hello.......

I am developing a software in java.
I want to integrate openkm with it. please tell me , can i distribute openkm to my software users??
wheather i have to pay to allow the distribution or not??

Please Reply ASAP.

:?: :?: :)

Re: distribution of openkm

PostPosted:Tue Jan 24, 2012 5:36 pm
by pavila
Please, contact us at http://www.openkm.com/en/support/contact.html because we need to understand on details what do you want to do.

Re: distribution of openkm

PostPosted:Wed Jan 25, 2012 6:30 am
by himani
Hi

I am going to integrate openkm with my software.
I just want to ask that can I distribute openkm ??

Re: distribution of openkm

PostPosted:Thu Jan 26, 2012 9:56 am
by jllort
You can install community version, but you can not sell OpenKM that's the idea.
As suggested paco, contact with us because your product can be shared in our customers network and us we can distribute yours as you distribute openkm.

Re: distribution of openkm

PostPosted:Fri Jan 27, 2012 6:22 am
by himani
Hi

I have already installed community version of openkm.
I am new to this software and do not understand the license terms and conditions.
At openkm site, it is wriiten that

"OpenKM is available to Open Source community under the GNU General Public Licence version 2.

The OpenKM source code is available for the entire community, which is free to use, modify and redistribute it under the premises of such license."

I am not understanding the meaning of license here beccause it is totally free and distribution is also free.

Is any documentation available about these license terms and conditions. I want to go through them.
Can u provide me the link to that documentation :?: :?:

Plz help me....
Thanks

Re: distribution of openkm

PostPosted:Fri Jan 27, 2012 10:50 am
by jllort

Re: distribution of openkm

PostPosted:Fri Jan 27, 2012 11:51 am
by himani
Thanks !!!!!!!!!!

I went through GNU terms and conditions, but no where is written that wheather can we sell that software or not??

I am going to distribute openkm with my software freely to others.
I won't charge for it because my software is also open source.

According to the above mails I got to understand that we can download, install, use , distribute and we can sell it(charge for it). Am I correct?????

Plz correct me if I am wrong.


Plz Reply

Re: distribution of openkm

PostPosted:Sat Jan 28, 2012 9:29 am
by jllort
It's not correct. You can not sell OpenKM, you can only sell for installation, maintenance, customization etc... for your work but not for the software, the software is free. In case you made some customization, change on source code you should send us to evaluate if must be integrated to default source code in order be compliance with GNU licence ( new feature ), if you simply connect with OpenKM API this kind of feature is not a part of OpenKM software enhancement it's external module and that is not necessary be sended to us ... hope you've understood me now.

Obviously, you can not rebranch openkm as white product, for it cases we're offering otgher special licensing types.

Finally, we're not the evil :) you can contact with us, as I said in previous post, we're interested in distribute to our customers ( actual and future ) modules and thirdparty solutions integrated with OpenKM, here we've got several OCR engines, among others, sometimes OpenKM is only used as dms container across webservices and end user is using other software company. Only as a suggestion, if you're selling professional solutions should thinking on professional supporting, sometimes in this forum, we're reading about users without backups, or backup's don't correctly done ( as a example ), dms installation is not a joke, because all information is there and sometimes is so late to helping users.

Re: distribution of openkm

PostPosted:Mon Jan 30, 2012 4:32 am
by himani
HI!!!!!!!!!!!
:)
THANKU SO MUCH
NOW I UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING.
THANKU :D :D