Re: [Spam] Re: People trying to make money on openoffice.org

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From: "David B Teague sr" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 5:56 PM
Subject: [Spam] [discuss] 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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