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I am sure this has been answered somewhere, and I did read the licensing faq but it wasn't 100% clear to me so I thought I'd ask. I was curious as to the licensing/legal requirements of, well, using Drupal to make money.

Example 1: You are a free lance web designer. Business contacts you to have you build them a site. You meet with the client, discuss their needs, and eventually decide that their best option would be to make a Drupal site for them. You want to charge them for the initial setup and design, as well as possibly hosting it.

Example 2: You set yourself up more as a SaaS provider. People come to your site, click a big "Launch your site" button, pick their monthly plan and then a Drupal instance is generated for them that they can log into and edit just like any other Drupal site. Possibly includes some custom modules and themes pre-installed. You provide support and such for these instances. Kind of like Drupal Gardens.

What are the licensing/legal implications of those two situations? I.e., can you use them? And if so, are there legal restrictions you should be aware of (for example, do you have to put a giant 'Powered by Drupal' on the site, etc)?

I am sure this has been answered somewhere, and I did read the licensing faq but it wasn't 100% clear to me so I thought I'd ask. I was curious as to the licensing/legal requirements of, well, using Drupal to make money.

Example 1: You are a free lance web designer. Business contacts you to have you build them a site. You meet with the client, discuss their needs, and eventually decide that their best option would be to make a Drupal site for them. You want to charge them for the initial setup and design, as well as possibly hosting it.

Example 2: You set yourself up more as a SaaS provider. People come to your site, click a big "Launch your site" button, pick their monthly plan and then a Drupal instance is generated for them that they can log into and edit just like any other Drupal site. Possibly includes some custom modules and themes pre-installed. You provide support and such for these instances. Kind of like Drupal Gardens.

I am sure this has been answered somewhere, and I did read the licensing faq but it wasn't 100% clear to me so I thought I'd ask. I was curious as to the licensing/legal requirements of, well, using Drupal to make money.

Example 1: You are a free lance web designer. Business contacts you to have you build them a site. You meet with the client, discuss their needs, and eventually decide that their best option would be to make a Drupal site for them. You want to charge them for the initial setup and design, as well as possibly hosting it.

Example 2: You set yourself up more as a SaaS provider. People come to your site, click a big "Launch your site" button, pick their monthly plan and then a Drupal instance is generated for them that they can log into and edit just like any other Drupal site. Possibly includes some custom modules and themes pre-installed. You provide support and such for these instances. Kind of like Drupal Gardens.

What are the licensing/legal implications of those two situations? I.e., can you use them? And if so, are there legal restrictions you should be aware of (for example, do you have to put a giant 'Powered by Drupal' on the site, etc)?

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I am sure this has been answered somewhere, and I did read the licensing faq but it wasn't 100% clear to me so I thought I'd ask. I was curious as to the licensing/legal requirements of, well, using Drupal to make money.

Example 1: You are a free lance web designer. Business contacts you to have you build them a site. You meet with the client, discuss their needs, and eventually decide that their best option would be to make a Drupal site for them. You want to charge them for the initial setup and design, as well as possibly hosting it.

Example 2: You set yourself up more as a SaaS provider. People come to your site, click a big "Launch your site" button, pick their monthly plan and then a Drupal instance is generated for them that they can log into and edit just like any other Drupal site. Possibly includes some custom modules and themes pre-installed. You provide support and such for these instances. Kind of like Drupal Gardens.