On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 08:15 -0500, D Figueroa wrote: > Hi, > > I ran across an Ebay seller selling Open Office (calling it Open > Office 2007) as a 107 MB digital download (no CDROMs) with no > apparent modifications at all. Is this allowed? I could not find > anything in the FAQs that allowed resale of the digital version. The > guy is also hawking 11,000 'free fonts' along with it, failing to > tell newbies that if they try to install 11k fonts in Windows they're > going to have some MAJOR trouble with their systems. > > The user, shadowcreekfarms, claims that he is licensed to distribute, > but I couldn't find this name on your list. > > Just curious as to why anyone would pay to download an open source > file. I can certainly understand why people would want to buy a CDrom > and CDrom sellers definitely need to cover their costs and services, > but just to offer a download when it's free from Sun, I just don't > see how that would be allowed. It seems like such a ripoff.
There is no law to stop someone putting an advert on ebay saying please give me money :-). The OpenOffice.org license allows free distribution so everyone is licensed to distribute and charge for associated service. In principle if someone said pay me $10 for giving you the information to download OOo it's not illegal. It might not be strictly ethical but that is a different issue. The community could try and stop him saying he was endorsed or representing the community but that is about it. Ian -- New QCA Accredited IT Qualifications www.theINGOTs.org You have received this email from the following company: The Learning Machine Limited, Reg Office, 36 Ashby Road, Tamworth, Staffordshire, B79 8AQ. Reg No: 05560797, Registered in England and Wales. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
