On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:52:08 -0700 Dave wrote: > Hello, > > I hope I've reached the right address. My question is about the > copyright to Open Office. I would like to use some screen shots of > various Open Office programs in a film and wondered if I need > permission to do this. Any help you could provide would be greatly > appreciated. >
This is a user mailing list where users help each other out with issues related to using OpenOffice.org (OO.o). So you may get differing opinions, most without official backing. You could run into trouble with opensource programs that have multiple contributors as often each holds the copyright on their own piece of code. Thankfully with OpenOffice.org you only need to deal with Sun Microsystems as all contributors have signed joint copyright ownership with Sun for the program under the JCA: http://bn.openoffice.org/files/documents/182/2198/jca.pdf I think this is the webpage at Sun that will be most useful, although many Sun employees as OO.o contributors are generally lurking on this mailing list. http://www.sun.com/software/licensingcenter/ I suspect the official view will be "Sure, go ahead if it isn't porn or any other film likely to bring the program into disrepute". I also think that they will see it as an excellent advertising opportunity for the program. -- Michael All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
