[tdf-discuss] Open source and open formats

2013-03-23 Thread Pedro
Hi all In the sequence of this topic at the Marketing list http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Open-Xchange-to-launch-open-source-browser-based-office-suite-tp4045197.html I share Simon Phipps' concern that the company announces a GPL Open Source office suite which is not free for commercial

[tdf-discuss] still feedback needed for TDF annual report

2013-03-23 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello, this is just a nice reminder that if you have some time over the weekend, and some good material for our annual report, feel free to send it in. Being sick the past couple of days, I didn't start writing yet, but am still collecting material, so you would be just in time. ;-) Thanks,

Re: [tdf-discuss] Open source and open formats

2013-03-23 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Pedro, I understand your question in a different way. No one can prohibit a gpl software to be sold andno one can prohibit it to its downstream distributor. But it looks like this software is licensed under a CC licence, non commercial, BY and SA, which does make its open source nature