Thank you Nishant for your quick reply. I understand that this is all
done by volunteers and the CDROM distributor's page is clear about that.
It is important to me to be 100% in compliance with all laws, rules and
expectations of this great OpenOffice.org project and so I don't know
whether I can start selling our value-added OpenOffice.org CD just by
mere sending an email to this mailing list.
It is unclear to me how I "can freely distribute the software even if I
have not yet received a reply to my email".
That same CD-ROM distributor's page states (in addition to the above):
"you must request permission to use the logos. This may be done by
sending an email to the person responsible. "
I cannot offer the CD-ROM without the permission to use the logos and
obviously a permission must be in a form of a reply. Unless
OpenOffice.org intentionally phrased the condition as "request
permission", not necessarily "explicitly being granted permission".
Could you please clarify?
BTW, we are currently offering The GIMP CD. The "Selling GIMP" page (
http://www.gimp.org/about/selling.html ) does not require explicit
permission from gimp.org and so it was faster for us to comply.
Thank you,
Daniel @ Software Candy LLC
Nishant Prakash Kashyap wrote:
Well, answer to your query is that ... No One is Responsible to reply to any
mails and alternatively anyone on the mailer list is entitled to reply to
any mail.
There is no direct responsible person to reply to query.
I has send mails 2 years back and till now not received any reply.
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Software Candy LLC <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Greetings from Vermont, the Green Mountain State in the USA.
Three days ago, I sent an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED], requesting formal
permission to sell OpenOffice.org CDs on ebaY.
I was confident that within hours I would see my email appearing here, in
this mailing list archive. But then, after several days of not being able to
find any reminiscent of it, I double-checked and discovered that this
mailing list's address is [email protected] - not
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (long live the tiny difference 'distribution' :)).
I now notice that OpenOffice.org's distribution web site says that email to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] goes directly to Alex Fisher. I am unsure whether my
email request to him is sufficient or whether I should post it here, too.
Could you please advise?
In the meanwhile, I would appreciate it if you could clarify some confusion
I have in regard to the instructions in the following page:
http://distribution.openoffice.org/cdrom/distributors.html
Bullet #6 states "Understand that you may still distribute OpenOffice.org
at any time. Even if you have not yet received a reply to your email, you
may still freely distribute the software."
However, to the best of my understanding, without explicit permission from
OpenOffice.org I can freely distribute the software only if I patch the
software to replace every occurrence of the phrase "OpenOffice.org". This is
not what I am interested in. I am interested in using the brand
"OpenOffice.org" along with the familiar logo(s). Can I still do that even
if I have not yet received a reply to my email?
Thank you,
Daniel from Software Candy LLC
Burlington, Vermont
U.S.A
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