I have a doubts and some questions, please clarify me because I want to makes
things in legal conditions.
I have read the “Terms of service” and “Trademark policy” but still didn’t answer this question I have. So here’s the thing:
I am trying to build a small business which provides Information management system to a specific company, I want to use Grafana as our front-end due to the fact that it has a lot of plugins. My question is this legal ? I mean we are going to use grafana for specific company and that company will pay for our services? It is like they are paying for the services we provided for them.
Please clarify me in this. Since this is just start-up budget is limited for grafana enterprise.
In addition to Apache 2.0 (which is as permissive as @pooh stated ) the word Grafana itself and some of the logos associated with Grafana are covered by trademarks which means that you’re not allowed to use those commercially without complying to the trademark policy (linked below)
There’s an email address listed in the trademark policy for contacting Grafana Labs, I’d highly recommend you reach out to that one explaining what you’re doing and how you’re integrating it with your product. That will allow you to both get a sense of what you have to do to comply with the trademark policy and establish a contact with Grafana Labs
Hello Friend! thank you for your suggestions. Will definitely contact them onceeverything is okay
on my side. As far as my research here in community, I found out that you can actually change Logos, Titles etc in Grafana so that you may avoid any legal issues regarding the their policies. Is my understanding correct?
Just wondering how the recent licensing changes from Apache to AGPL affect the commercial use of Grafana. Can we still use unmodified Grafana as the visualisation component of our commercial service?
If you do not modify open source code (including that distributed under
AGPLv3) then you can do whatever you want with it.
If you are using Grafana as a visualisation component of a commercial
service then it does not sound as though you are even supplying Grafana itself
to your customers - they are merely interacting with it, running on your
machines. This is perfectly fine under AGPLv3.
Hi, we have the same question and note the recent agplv3 change.
We are a small growing business and love the grafana platform.
Can we use grafana cloud as part of our service offering for example:
can we visualise and alert on our clients Azure environment, they would log into our grafana cloud instance using guest accounts in our Azure AD and access their visualisations in a dashboard folder structure only they have access to, we would charge for the ongoing upkeep of the boards and alerts. We don’t change any source code, our IP that we want to protect is the time spent on kusto and our creativity with the visualisations, combining data sources etc etc.
If we can’t do this with grafana cloud then can we do this with a oss OR enterprise instance running on our Azure tenant?
Can we change logos without causing issues legally or commercially?
) the word Grafana itself and some of the logos associated with Grafana are covered by trademarks which means that you’re not allowed to use those commercially without complying to the trademark policy (linked below)