Re: [cd-rom] Pirate?

[Scott M Stolz]

It is legal to redistibute OpenOffice.org on CDs and sell them.  Technically a person selling such CDs is not selling you OpenOffice.org, but instead selling you the CD which OpenOffice.org is on.  Buy purchasing the CD, you are paying for the convenience of it being on a CD instead of you downloading it yourself and burning it on your own CD (if desired).  Buying a CD is useful and a good value for people on dial-up where it would take forever to download it from the website, or who want to install it on a computer without internet access, or who want the convenience of popping in a CD instead of downloading the whole thing for every computer they want to install it on.

They can't, however, claim that it is their own work when its not.  But redistributing it is not illegal, in fact its encouraged.

On 2/26/06, Kyle Korleski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Okay, let me tell you something ma'am. OpenOffice.org is a free piece of
software and it should be just as legal as if you downloaded it straight
from www.openoffice.org or got it from an official distributor, am I right?

JoAnn McKenzie wrote:
> I purchased an OpenOffice CD for Mac on eBay...it is obviously a
> homemade copy.  Is this legal?
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