On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 12:42 -0500, Helen Schroeder wrote: > I won a copy disc of this program on eBay. Is that authorized > distribution? (Not incidentally, if integrity is important to you and > your program, they charged me $8 to ship this little CD copy for which > they actually paid 67 cents to ship.)
It is allowed by the LGPL (which OpenOffice.org is released under) to sell copies of the program, subject to the conditions of the license. One of those conditions is that you must get a copy of the source code or be able to acquire a copy of the source code from the party who sold you the copy; read the LGPL for more details. (And remember that Richard Stallman himself sold copies of the first versions of GNU Emacs for $150 per tape, licensed under the GPL.) -- Shawn K. Quinn --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
