Hi :) Just my opinion and i might be wrong in some aspects but hopefully i've got enough correct to give you a rough idea. :)
The OpenOffice license has changed quite a bit over the years. LibreOffice is closer to the original - and is aiming to be something like the Creative Commons ones, ie free to use, free to modify and free for you to share your modified version or/and to share the unmodified version. You can sell the unmodified or modified versions for whatever you like as long as it's on Cd/Dvd, or Usb or that you are providing some way for people to install it that is different from them just downloading it from the LibreOffice website. You would not be charging for the software itself so you would be charging for providing the means/method for the people to install the software. However you need to make it clear to them where they can get the source code for free and be willing to give them the source code via the same method used to give them the software. There are sometimes disagreements about whether it is enough to just give them a link to the LibreOffice website or whether you should provide the source code by the same means as the rest of the software and whether you should give them the source code at the same time as the rest of the software. If, for example, you are selling Cd's of LibreOffice then it might be easiest to just include the source code on the same Cd to prevent such 'discussions'. If anyone asks you to provide the source code then you have to give them at least the link to the LibreOffice website so they can get it for free (excluding transmissions and internet charges etc). You can charge for support, consultation, advice and other services. If you make any money from LibreOffice then it's polite (and strategically wise) to donate to The Document Foundation or/and a group working on LibreOffice such as a localisation/translation group or local users-group. There are arguments/discussions about what "make money" means. Often the people who do charge argue that a percentage of ALL money should go to TDF - people who don't charge point out that it should be only an amount of the profits (ie only after all the costs and expenses and after the costs of expanding the business a bit have been recouped by whoever was doing the charging). The main aim is to get LibreOffice distributed as widely as reasonably possible without creating problems for the people doing the distributing. OpenOffice has moved slightly away from that idea and is a little more keen on getting some sort of recognition for those involved in doing the programming. 3rd party stuff; such as Java, accessibility programs (and anything else that is not directly part of LibreOffice itself) each have their own "Ts&Cs" (= terms and conditions) of what they want to let you do and what they want to prevent. With something like Java there is likely to be an Open Source alternative/version that does have a very similar license to LibreOffice. I have tried to describe the GPL license because that is used quite widely in OpenSource projects. The Mozilla license and LGPL used by LibreOffice and a few others aims to be similar but have slight nuances or try to make the essential freedoms clearer or more binding under law but they all aim to be much the same as the GPL. The Apache Foundation's licence, used by OpenOffice nowadays, tends to be more like the BSD licenses and tends to try to give more credit to the programmers and restrict usage a little bit more. Confusingly some people refer to these as being more 'permissive', i think because it gives big businesses more control. Regards from Tom :) On 15 April 2017 at 10:18, nasrin khaksar <nasrinkhaks...@gmail.com> wrote: > tudy it, but it was extremely long > specially with inclusion of thirdparthy > -- 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