Re: [Marketing] www-openoffice.com are they authorised to sell at $49

2006-08-05 Thread Chad Smith
On 8/5/06, Kaj Kandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Chad, great you chime in on this. However, I think if you do what you are saying should there not be an obligation to change at least the name of the "product". There is nothing in the LGPL abo

Re: [Marketing] www-openoffice.com are they authorised to sell at $49

2006-08-05 Thread Kaj Kandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Chad, great you chime in on this. However, I think if you do what you are saying should there not be an obligation to change at least the name of the "product". Also, I do read the LGPL differently, "There's nothing in the LGPL saying the source co

Re: [Marketing] www-openoffice.com are they authorised to sell at $49

2006-08-05 Thread Chad Smith
On 8/5/06, André Wyrwa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: However, the one thing that concerns me here... does the LGPL not require mention of the original authors? And does it not require publishing the source? I can't find any reference to OOo on the page nor any mention of the source. But i might ju

Re: [Marketing] www-openoffice.com are they authorised to sell at $49

2006-08-05 Thread Kaj Kandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sorry I'm no lawyer, but I think the LGPL does permit the advertisement and sale of the software. The following only says in the *copy* all license information must be replicated. "1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Library's comple

Re: [Marketing] www-openoffice.com are they authorised to sell at $49

2006-08-05 Thread Ian Lynch
On Sat, 2006-08-05 at 20:42 +1000, André Wyrwa wrote: > Hei, > > just having a thought about these kind of business approaches... > > Would it make sense to write a Firefox extension that acts as a > "phishing" filter kind of thing for distributors that violate OSS licences? > > I'm imagining s

Re: [Marketing] www-openoffice.com are they authorised to sell at $49

2006-08-05 Thread André Wyrwa
Hei, just having a thought about these kind of business approaches... Would it make sense to write a Firefox extension that acts as a "phishing" filter kind of thing for distributors that violate OSS licences? I'm imagining something that pops up a little note saying "this site asks you to p

Re: [Marketing] www-openoffice.com are they authorised to sell at $49

2006-08-05 Thread André Wyrwa
Hi, Neville Daniels wrote: Dear Sir/Madam Is http://www-openoffice.com authorised to sell OpenOffice? Funny. There are just too many smart asses out there. They surely have the right to take money for that. Morally, it's even justifyable that they have themselves paid for the 8 weeks inclu

Re: [Marketing] www-openoffice.com are they authorised to sell at $49

2006-08-05 Thread Graham
Neville Daniels wrote: > Dear Sir/Madam > > Is http://www-openoffice.com authorised to sell OpenOffice? > Not "authorised" as such but then they don't need to be. Anyone can sell it for whatever price they wish. That's part of the license. Cheers GL -- "GET LEGAL - GET OPENOFFICE.ORG" http://w

[Marketing] www-openoffice.com are they authorised to sell at $49

2006-08-05 Thread Neville Daniels
Dear Sir/Madam Is http://www-openoffice.com authorised to sell OpenOffice? -- Regards Neville A Daniels - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]