Re: People trying to make money on openoffice.org

On 8/23/2011 4:18 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 16:50, RA Brown<[email protected]>  wrote:
>>   They also have to have at least as link to the source so that anyone can
>> download it.  I do not understand Norwegian so I can not tell how close they
>> are crossing the line.
> What is amazing is that people continue to do these kind of things
> without knowing that someone, someday, is going to find out and report
> back to the developers....
>
> FC
I used Google translate to see the page in English. I found no reference 
to authorship on the page I looked at. There also is no link to the 
source apparent, but I had to go looking for the the source for OO.o and 
LO. All that is required (I think I have this right) that the source 
code be made available at a cost no greater than actual cost of 
providing it. For binaries, you can charge what the market will bear. 
Not the GPL's words, but close.

As I recall, the FSF charged a chunk of money (perhaps a couple 
hundred?) in the mid 80s for tapes of Emacs and Gnu C sources. That was 
a hell of a lot of money back then.

My point is: It is not illegal to sell binaries if the source is made 
available, and the authors are acknowledged.  Is either of these being done?

--David Teague

-- 
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Duke Ellington


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