<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/4/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Fathi BOUDRA</b> <<a href="mailto:fboudra@free.fr">fboudra@free.fr</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
but there's also "non-commercial" term. We can see on jpgrah website:<br><a href="http://www.aditus.nu/jpgraph/proversion.php">http://www.aditus.nu/jpgraph/proversion.php</a><br>"if you plan on using JpGraph in a commercial context you will need to acquire
<br>the professional license. Commercial use is for example if you use JpGraph on<br>a site to provide a service for paying customers or for example if you are<br>using JpGraph in an intranet to provide support for internal business
<br>processes, i.e. in benefit for a commercial company.<br>In short, if you use JpGraph where you have an economic advantage (either<br>through paying customers or improving internal business processes) this most<br>likely falls under commercial use."
<br><br>with this statements, my interpretation is:<br>we use jpgraph QPL licensed in vtigercrm, an open-source product. We don't<br>sell the product ("open-source" term related)but some people sell services<br>
around it("non-commercial" term related). They use jpgraph in an "economic<br>advantage" and need professional license.</blockquote><div><br><br>And this is the problem.<br><br>Because I agree:<br><br>
- you don't sell vtiger so you can use jpgraph since you don't gain any incomes<br><br>- you can also distribute jpgraph but then problem is that you don't know how other use vtiger<br><br>- if they use vtiger 'non-commercial' then everything is ok
<br> (for example open source developers, private users... )<br><br>- but as we all know - vtiger is open source product targeted for business users, so they:<br><br>"In short, if you use JpGraph where you have an economic advantage (either
<br>through paying customers or improving ___internal___ business processes) this most<br>likely falls under commercial use."<br><br>So although you can distribute jpgraph, you can use this as open source developer etc. then other _business_ users violate JpGraph license and should buy 'JpGraph professional' license or - remove/disable this library in vtiger - or downgrade library that is bundled with vtiger to
1.5.2 as Fathi said.<br></div></div><br><br>Marcin<br><br>