Hello everyone.
Simple, simple question to which I want to be 100% sure and I don't want to misread or some crap alike that I'm perfectly capable of screwing up royal!
I want to use some Portableapps in here, with a custom launcher (not the PA.com menu) for my work place. It is a government organization therefore no profit will be made from or trhough the use of this piece of software or anything included. Is this okay? Am I free to redistribute this budled up launcher to my co-workers?
Basically the launcher is intended to be used with in-house software on our local machines, but I also want it to include some utilities in the case we need to be outside the office (which happens alot).
Thanks much!
~tech
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I suppose. Open Source is for everyone-even for profit companies can use it in a huge scale. But certain OS Licenses, namely the MPL, where you can't redistribute an altered version. If you made the launcher yourself, of course it's okay! But you might need to check with John.
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I dont think redistributing the Mozilla apps is allowed, John has special permission from Mozilla to keep their copyrights with it, but distributing anything else should be fine.
And what digitxp was trying to say about some licenses don't let you redistribute, the Mozilla apps allow you to modify the code, but you MUST change all logos and copyrights before redistributing...all instances of the mozilla branding must be removed.
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Well all seems in order since the Mozilla apps are not part of what I'll include in the launcher.
Thank you for the quick response!
What you can not do is distribute modified versions and call them Firefox ..
"In the past, Firefox was licensed solely under the MPL, which the FSF criticizes for being weak copyleft; the license permits, in limited ways, proprietary derivative works. Additionally, code under the MPL cannot legally be linked with code under the GPL or the LGPL.To address these concerns, Mozilla re-licensed Firefox under the tri-license scheme of MPL, GPL, and LGPL. Since the re-licensing, developers have been free to choose the license under which they will receive the code, to suit their intended use: GPL or LGPL linking and derivative works when one of those licenses is chosen, or MPL use (including the possibility of proprietary derivative works) if they choose the MPL.
The name "Mozilla Firefox" is a registered trademark; along with the official Firefox logo, it may only be used under certain terms and conditions. Anyone may redistribute the official binaries in unmodified form and use the Firefox name and branding for such distribution, but restrictions are placed on distributions which modify the underlying source code.
To allow distributions of the code without using the official branding, the Firefox source code contains a "branding switch". This switch allows the code to be compiled without the official logo and name, for example to produce a derivative work unencumbered by restrictions on the Firefox trademark (this is also often used for betas and alphas of future Firefox versions). In the unbranded compilation the trademarked logo and name are replaced with a freely distributable generic globe logo and the name of the release series from which the modified version was derived. The name "Deer Park" is used for derivatives of Firefox 1.5, "Bon Echo" for derivatives of Firefox 2.0, and "Gran Paradiso" is used for derivatives of Firefox 3.0."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FireFox