Hi Everyone.
I wanted to thank all of you who are active in posting forum feedback and questions, as this benefits the entire Scalix community. It is also (obviously) very helpful to us in evaluating what areas of the product require improvement. It has been quite gratifying to see from the forum and to hear from our users, that the Community Edition is getting widely deployed and used. And as you now know, the initial success we've had with the Community Edition, encouraged us to increase the number of Enterprise Users in the 9.4.2 release from 5 to 25.
A common question that we have received lately is whether Community Edition can be used as part of a commercial email service that is provided to others, e.g. by service providers. Per its license agreement, Community Edition is free software. We only ask that if you want to resell Community Edition or make it part of a revenue-generating service or product, that you contact us to discuss commercial arrangements. We have not formalized a specific pricing model for folks who want to use it in such a way - we want to first learn more from our early adopters on what they would like to see from us on this subject.
If helpful, I have included a copy of the Community Edition license agreement at the end of this note for your review.
In parting, I once again wanted to thank everyone for using Community Edition, to encourage people to continue providing feedback, and to tell others about Community Edition -- this will only help make it better.
Best Regards,
Glenn
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Scalix Community Edition License Agreement
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