[Zope-CMF] Re: Is unmodified CMF useless? Some Plone questions.

[Erik Lange]

At 03:08 PM 5/11/04, Tres Seaver wrote:
>Lennart Regebro wrote:
>>>- If you are looking for free software (not just free to download, but
>>>also free to modify *and* redistribute), your options cut down to Silva
>>>or something you build yourself on CMF or plain Zope.
>>
>>If you want to be able to charge for it, yes. But GPL:d software, like CPS,
>>can be modified and redistributed as long as you don't charge for it.
>
>Not exactly:
>
>   http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html

Right :-)

But - there are also trademarks. So you may be able to distribute the 
software for a price according to the CPL license, but not using the name 
og the software software for your distribution.

I.e. Plone solution (who owns the trademark "Plone") doesn't allow you to 
distribute the Plone software installed on a hardware server, as a product 
called "Plone server". Of course that has to be respected. You can however, 
sell a server, a disc with the Plone software and consultancy hours for 
installing the software on the server, and thereby sell a "Plone server" - 
but you're not allowed to call it a "plone server" when marketing it ;-)

I don't know how CPS's policy on their trademark (if registered) is ?

Best regards,
Erik Lange