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Deployment types
SugarCRM offers Software as a Service (SaaS), on-premise offerings and appliance solutions.
License
On July 25, 2007, SugarCRM announced the adoption of the GNU General Public License (version 3) for Sugar
Community Edition, the offering previously known as Sugar Open Source. [6] The GPL takes effect with the release
of Sugar Community Edition 5.0, scheduled for late northern-hemisphere summer 2007.
SugarCRM licensed previous versions of Sugar Community Edition under the SugarCRM Public License (based on
the Mozilla Public License and the Attribution Assurance License). While users could freely redistribute Sugar Open
Source and the license allowed for the inspection and modification of the source code and for the creation of derived
works, critics, including Dan Farber, editor in chief at CNET, expressed some concern over SugarCRM's use of the
term "commercial open source" to describe its products. [7]
On April 11, 2010, SugarCRM announced that starting with version 6.0.0, the Sugar Community Edition will be
licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License version 3. [8]
See also
• Customer Relationship Management
• Software as a Service
• Web application
• TCPDF library for generating PDF documents with SugarCRM.
External links
• Official website [9]
• Sugarforge [12] — Plug-ins and third-party projects for SugarCRM
References
[1] http://www.sugarcrm.com/
[2] SourceForge.net: Project of the Month (http://sourceforge.net/potm/potm-2004-10.php)
[3] SugarCRM raises $20M more for open source CRM » VentureBeat (http://venturebeat.com/2008/02/07/
sugarcrm-raises-20m-more-for-open-source-crm/)
[4] SugarCRM Nets $20 Million Investment - Software - IT Channel News by CRN and VARBusiness (http://www.crn.com/software/
206106218)
[5] SugarCRM lands $20 million venture round | Tech news blog - CNET News.com (http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9866743-7.html)
[6] SugarCRM adopts GPLv3 for Community Edition - Computer Business Review (http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.
asp?guid=62AED6AA-BAA3-4A9E-9A8B-0E4C72B3A3E4)
[7] ZDNet Magazine, "Commercial Open Source, A Misnomer?" (August 29, 2005) (http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1787)
[8] Moving to the AGPLv3 for Sugar 6 (http://developers.sugarcrm.com/wordpress/2010/04/11/moving-to-the-agplv3-for-sugar-6/)
[9] http://www.sugarcrm.com