Great, thank you for the reply.

Yeah, I understand you can get the same thing everywhere -- but, I'm just a 
consultant, who am I to argue with a paying customer?

Frank

On Sep 10, 2013, at 11:44 AM, Marc-André Moreau <marcandre.mor...@gmail.com> 
wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> The core FreeRDP libraries are licensed under the Apache 2.0 license:
> https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/blob/master/LICENSE
> 
> The iOS client portion is licensed under the MPL 2.0 license:
> http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/
> 
> Long story short, the Apache 2.0 is a permissive license and shouldn't be a 
> problem for you. The MPL 2.0 is a weak copyleft license, which means you need 
> to redistribute certain files: existing MPL 2.0 files or files in which you 
> copied MPL 2.0 code snippets. However, the MPL 2.0 license does not require 
> you to redistribute new source files which do not contain MPL 2.0 code in 
> them, so it's fairly easy to write your own proprietary code extensions.
> 
> As for rebranding, there's a couple of rebranded clients out there already. 
> It's perfectly fine aside from the fact that people are pretty much getting 
> the same thing under a dozen brands, as it's all FreeRDP in the end :P
> 
> Best regards,
> - Marc-Andre
> 
> 
> On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Frank LaRosa <fr...@nobleapplications.com> 
> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm an iOS developer -- I have a customer who has asked me if I can produce a 
> remote desktop client app. He wants it to be branded to his business but 
> otherwise doesn't need any functional changes. Is it permissible to use the 
> FreeRDP source code for this kind of a project? Is there someone I need to 
> talk to about licensing?
> 
> Thanks.
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