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Upcoming Events

San Francisco CiviCRM Meetup - February 8th, 2012
February 8th, 2012
Come meet others from the Bay Area who are interested in, using or developing (more...)

UK usergroup - London meetup
February 8th, 2012
Come and meet others from the UK that are using CiviCRM or are interested in (more...)

London user and administrator training
February 23rd, 2012
A comprehensive two day hands on training course covering the configuration, (more...)

CiviCRM London sprint Feb 2012
February 27th, 2012
Following the CiviCRM training here in London, we will have a CiviCRM code (more...)

UK South West - CiviCRM Meetup
March 20th, 2012
Come meet others from the Area who are interested in, using or developing for (more...)

[Bristol, UK] user and administrator training
March 21st, 2012
A comprehensive hands on training course covering the configuration, (more...)

San Francisco user and administrator training
March 29th, 2012
A comprehensive two day hands on training course covering the configuration, (more...)

CiviCRM Usability, Test and Code Sprint - San Francisco (March 2012)
March 29th, 2012
This usability, code and test sprint is targeted at CiviCRM users and (more...)

CiviCon 2012 San Francisco Bay Area - April 2nd 2012
April 2nd, 2012
CiviCon is THE annual event bringing together the people who use, develop, (more...)

CiviCRM Documentation, Test and Code Sprint - after CiviCon San Francisco (April 2012)
April 4th, 2012
This sprint is targeted at CiviCRM users and developers who want to work on (more...)

CiviCRM Components

Tools for engaging your supporters...

CiviContribute

CiviEvent

CiviMail

CiviMember

CiviReport

CiviCRM Licensing

Not Just a Contact Database

These optional components give you more power to connect and engage your supporters.

  • civiCASE

  • Case management for clients and constituents.

  • civiEVENT

  • Online event registration and participant tracking.

  • civiMEMBER

  • Online signup and membership management.

  • civiMAIL

  • Personalized email blasts and newsletters.

  • civiREPORT

  • Report generation and template management.

July 25, 2005 - 18:46 — CiviCRM Team

CiviCRM Codebase

The CiviCRM 1 codebase is licensed under the Affero General Public License (AGPL).

The CiviCRM 2 (and later) codebase is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License 3 (GNU AGPL 3) and the CiviCRM Licensing Exception.

CiviCRM Licensing Exception

This CiviCRM Licensing Exception is an additional permission under section 7 of the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3. It applies to a given file that bears a notice stating that the file is governed by that license along with this exception.

Permission is hereby granted to combine the Program with works licensed under the PHP License versions 2.01, 2.02, 3.0 and 3.01.

Permission is hereby granted to license modified versions of the Program to CiviCRM LLC under the Academic Free License version 3.

Contributions to CiviCRM

The following guidelines cover project guidelines for licensing and copyright for patches and code contributions to be accepted into the core codebase. They were developed for us by Lawrence Rosen – our project attorney – who specializes in Open Source Software licensing.

While there is no bright line test for this, “minor software patches” and “code snippets” aren’t usually copyrightable subject matter. Copyright law requires some minimal level of expressive creativity, rather than just a brief description (even in source code form) of the solution to a technical software problem.

CiviCRM accepts minor software patches and code snippets from community members through our wiki and issue tracker without any formal agreements AS LONG AS YOU DO NOT CLAIM A COPYRIGHT INTEREST IN THEM. DO NOT PLACE COPYRIGHT NOTICES IN SUCH CONTRIBUTIONS if you do not claim a copyright interest in them.

Larger contributions are assumed to be copyrightable and we require that you place your copyright notice in the source code so that we have a clear record of claimed authorship. If you place a copyright notice in anything you contribute to CiviCRM, you will also need to license those works (under the Academic Free License version 3.0) to CiviCRM before they will be acceptable for distribution to our users and customers. To do so, place the following notice in the source code of every contributed file at the top:

/*
 * Copyright (C) 20xx author(s)-names
 * Licensed to CiviCRM under the Academic Free License version 3.0.
 *
 */

Replace “20xx” with the year you wrote the contribution, and list the name(s) of the contributor(s) or your company’s name (whichever is appropriate) in the copyright notice.