Chris Bonde wrote,
... I am a little disturbed that anyone can take what 'authors', 'documentors' have done and sell it for a profit. That is a profit without something being given to OOo. That is, if I were to write something good for OOo and it be published, great. (hey, ma, look at me!). But if someone else where allowed to take the same, put a different ribbon on it and collect some funds, I would be, at the least, very perturbed.
That's just the way it is, Chris, in the open source world. There is nothing unusual in the license arrangements for documents produced by OOoAuthors. Indeed, people can sell OpenOffice.org, the program, and make a profit if they want to, and many people do. (Some of those people contribute money or work back to the OOo community, but others don't.)
Jean
