Hello
I tried to find a post related to my questions but I could not find one that really answer it:
1) Can I use SMF in a commercial website (I won't redistribute the software, only the html pages generated by SMF distributed through the web).
2) Do I have to put a copyright notice on the generated html pages or only on the source code folders (PHP files) ?
3) Can I make a website using the forum and sell the website (content + SMF) ?
What I guessed is that:
answer for 1) is yes,
answer for 2) I am not sure
answer for 3) is NO
Can I have official answers ?
Thank you
Sincerely,
Ronan
Lainaa1) Can I use SMF in a commercial website (I won't redistribute the software, only the html pages generated by SMF distributed through the web).
Of course.
Lainaa2) Do I have to put a copyright notice on the generated html pages or only on the source code folders (PHP files) ?
You have to leave all the copyright statements. The exception being with SSI.php (though I'm not sure that's legally valid).
Lainaa3) Can I make a website using the forum and sell the website (content + SMF)?
I wouldn't know whether this is technically legal, but noone would have a problem with it.
To add:
The copyright must be displayed wherever the software generates it. In general this means only on the forum itself. If you integrate SMF into other areas of your website you do not need to display the copyright on those pages (i.e. if your home page uses SSI to show the latest discussion you don't need a copyright message there). In general as long as you don't stop SMF generating the copyright where it does this you will be fine.
There is nothing stopping you selling the website if it's content + SMF. However, the key element here is that you are not *selling* SMF - you are selling a website that you've created that happens to use SMF. As long as the buyer understands this then I think it should be fine.