Re: [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN commercial license?

[R J Thompson <richard.thompson@xxxxxxxx>]

Ok, thanks

We just want to know where we stand on the issue.

Regards

Richard

Janne Johansson wrote:
> 
> 
> 2006/10/4, R J Thompson <richard.thompson@xxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:richard.thompson@xxxxxxxx>>:
> 
>     Hello
> 
>     We are a small firm looking to incorporate OpenVPN into our network
>     appliance, the appliance is basically a web frontend to manage multiple
>     open source networking tools including OpenVPN.
> 
>     As we are looking to sell commercially, do we need to purchase a
>     commercial license for OpenVPN, if so, how and where would we find the
>     pricing etc..?
> 
>     We are not making any changes to the OpenVPN code itself, we just use
>     the software and it is managed by our own we frontend.
> 
>     Any help is appreciated.
> 
> 
> As long as you put the OpenVPN source somewhere along the distribution 
> in some form (unperverted)
> then you can sell it for as much as you like. Since you aren't doing any 
> modifications to it, there really
> shouldn't be any harm for your business to include the sources you used 
> to build openvpn since they already
> are available from other sources.
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html#HighOrLowFeesAndGPL
> 
> -- 
> Some mornings, it's just not worth gnawing through the straps...

-- 
Richard Thompson
RETP Solutions Ltd

email: richard.thompson@xxxxxxxx
web:   http://www.retp.net
tel:   0871 5043054

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