Re: [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN commercial license?

["Jim Drash" <jim.drash@xxxxxxxxx>]

You need to read the license from the OpenVPN web site:
http://openvpn.net/license.html.  It is spelled out there not as a
response in a mailing list.



On 10/4/06, R J Thompson <richard.thompson@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
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>
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