Re: [libreoffice-users] Resale Rights
I was asked to forward this to the appropriate mailing list - Alfie I think you'll get a response. My understanding is a) technically yes, b) if it meets certain criteria including keeping our labeling and I believe letting people know that they can get it for free from the website, c) charging a nominal amount and likely d) don't add spyware to ruin our reputation. That being said, you should receive an email from someone else at some point soon hopefully. Best, Joel On 11/25/2013 01:20 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) I think that depends on who is involved in the community of the product. If all the work has been done by a single company or partnership or person then i figure that they deserve to earn money from that. If they have been generous enough to GPL the software then updates and upgrades from the community might be morally awkward to charge for unless a decent proportion of that money goes back into developing the community. If the community is providing user-support, marketing, documentation and stuff like that then it might be good to see the community benefiting from that a bit too. I think the important thing is that people have free access to the code Regards from Tom :) On 25 November 2013 15:00, M. Fioretti wrote: On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 11:56:25 AM +, Brad Rogers wrote: On Mon, 25 Nov 2013 08:36:16 +0100 "M. Fioretti" wrote: Hello M., Any fee, not just "nominal". I recently wrote about this here: http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/linux-and-open-source/is-it-legal-to-sell-gpl-software/ TL;DNR. too bad you didn't. It explains exactly that the inventors of the GPL don't believe what you do. Marco -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Resale Rights
Hi :) I think that depends on who is involved in the community of the product. If all the work has been done by a single company or partnership or person then i figure that they deserve to earn money from that. If they have been generous enough to GPL the software then updates and upgrades from the community might be morally awkward to charge for unless a decent proportion of that money goes back into developing the community. If the community is providing user-support, marketing, documentation and stuff like that then it might be good to see the community benefiting from that a bit too. I think the important thing is that people have free access to the code Regards from Tom :) On 25 November 2013 15:00, M. Fioretti wrote: > On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 11:56:25 AM +, Brad Rogers wrote: >> On Mon, 25 Nov 2013 08:36:16 +0100 >> "M. Fioretti" wrote: >> >> Hello M., >> >> >Any fee, not just "nominal". I recently wrote about this here: >> >http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/linux-and-open-source/is-it-legal-to-sell-gpl-software/ >> >> TL;DNR. > > too bad you didn't. It explains exactly that the inventors of the GPL > don't believe what you do. > > Marco > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Resale Rights
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 11:56:25 AM +, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Mon, 25 Nov 2013 08:36:16 +0100 > "M. Fioretti" wrote: > > Hello M., > > >Any fee, not just "nominal". I recently wrote about this here: > >http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/linux-and-open-source/is-it-legal-to-sell-gpl-software/ > > TL;DNR. too bad you didn't. It explains exactly that the inventors of the GPL don't believe what you do. Marco -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Resale Rights
On Mon, 25 Nov 2013 08:36:16 +0100 "M. Fioretti" wrote: Hello M., >Any fee, not just "nominal". I recently wrote about this here: >http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/linux-and-open-source/is-it-legal-to-sell-gpl-software/ TL;DNR. Whilst selling at any fee is certainly legal, I believe that charging more than cost covering fees is morally reprehensible. Of course, your article may well take that position, IDK. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediately apparent" Go away, come back, go away, come back Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely) - P!nk -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Resale Rights
On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 21:23:06 PM -0500, James Knott wrote: > Alfie Mc wrote: > > Hi im a big fan of your free software and wondered if i could attain resale > > rights thus allowing me to distribute your product within the uk on cd roms > > which will definitely promote your product/company. > > As I understand it, there are no "resale rights". You are free to > distribute LibreOffice and charge a nominal fee for a CD. Any fee, not just "nominal". I recently wrote about this here: http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/linux-and-open-source/is-it-legal-to-sell-gpl-software/ HTH, Marco http://mfioretti.com -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Resale Rights
Alfie Mc wrote: > Hi im a big fan of your free software and wondered if i could attain resale > rights thus allowing me to distribute your product within the uk on cd roms > which will definitely promote your product/company. As I understand it, there are no "resale rights". You are free to distribute LibreOffice and charge a nominal fee for a CD. OpenOffice had details for those wanting to do similar, but I don't see anything about it on the LibreOffice site. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Resale Rights
Hi im a big fan of your free software and wondered if i could attain resale rights thus allowing me to distribute your product within the uk on cd roms which will definitely promote your product/company. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
