Re: [hylafax-users] License

[Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tom Miller wrote:

> What one have to do it one wants to use Hylafax for resale?

Since this is the second time you've asked this, I'll answer since it 
seems like the replies you've gotten didn't answer your question...

The copyright and license is found in the source code and elsewhere:

 http://hylafax.sourceforge.net/COPYRIGHT

Now, I am not a lawyer, and if you need legal advice you should probably 
consider seeking the counsel of one on this, but as I read the 
copyright/license it  pretty much gives everyone the ability to sell 
HylaFAX along with modifying it and redistributing it as long as two 
conditions are met: 1) that the copyright/license appears in all copies 
of the software, and 2) that you not name SGI or Sam Leffler in 
marketing or publicity stunts.

Now this is just me, but I would also go as far as advising against 
using the name "HylaFAX" within your product name as there may be some 
legal basis for an existing trademark claim on that name.  The 
copyright/license doesn't specify whether permission to use the claimed 
HylaFAX trademark is granted along with the license, and I think that 
the safe thing to do is to assume that it's not.  But there is some 
doubt as to whether the trademark was ever registered in the first 
place, and it would seem that others don't follow my same line of 
thinking, either.

So I guess it depends upon what you intend to do as "reselling".  One of 
the more common ways of reselling HylaFAX that I've seen is to bundle 
HylaFAX in a larger software project, such as an office connectivity 
suite.  And I think that's fair usage and it doesn't appear to have 
gotten anyone in any trouble.

Lee.


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