Is it legal to distribute the following software?

[johnny19]

Hi,

I need some legal eyes and of course minds as well to offer some advise on the legality of software distribution. Specifically, I bought a copy of Adobe's ColdFusion (standard edition), then designed and developed a ColdFusion-based application, now, I'd like to distribute my software to the educational institutions and students. According to some readers, it is legal for me to include ColdFusion in my package for distribution, however, I'm not very certain about that, could you take a look?

Since this is my first post and not allow to include a URL, let me put it this way, adobe web site,
then
/products/eulas/#server
then
Adobe ColdFusion® (version 8 or 8.01)

Thank you very much in advance.

 

[dee_dub]

You don't say what kind of license you have (production software license, development software license,...) but it doesn't make much difference. In any case, the license only grants the right to "authorized users" to install the ColdFusion software on your "internal network". Both are defined terms under the license, and I suspect neither includes your clients and their computers.

 

[Michael Wechsler]

I'm sure that the license says that there are certain portions that are distributable. With application framework, it wouldn't make sense that you couldn't include some code as part of your product, e.g. if you're using a programming language and some of the code needs vital files to run that are expected to be packaged with an end user application provided to those end users. It's not uncommon or unusual at all and you'll find many examples in SDKs - software development kits.