Author: buildbot
Date: Wed Dec 12 16:16:41 2012
New Revision: 841897
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Staging update by buildbot for openofficeorg
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+<!--#include virtual="/doctype.html" -->
+<html>
+<head>
+<link href="/css/ooo.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
+
+<title>Compliance Costs and the Apache License
</title>
+<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
+
+
+<!--#include virtual="/google-analytics.js" -->
+</head>
+<body>
+<!--#include virtual="/brand.html" -->
+ <div id="topbara">
+ <!--#include virtual="/topnav.html" -->
+ <div id="breadcrumbsa"><a href="/">home</a> » <a
href="/why/">why</a> » <a href="/why/other/">other</a></div>
+ </div>
+ <div id="clear"></div>
+ <!--#include virtual="/why/leftnav.html" -->
+
+ <div id="content">
+
+ <h1 class="title">Compliance Costs and the Apache License
</h1>
+ <h2 id="software-licence-compliance-costs">Software Licence Compliance
Costs</h2>
+<p>The Business Software Alliance <a
href="https://reporting.bsa.org/r/report/add.aspx?src=us";>offers cash
rewards</a>, up to $1 million, to disgruntled employees who confidentially turn
in their employer (or ex-exployer) for software piracy.<br />
+They call this campaign, "Bust your Boss!"</p>
+<p>As you probably already know, you don't own commercial software in the same
way you own a chair or a desk. You license the software from the vendor, and
this license gives you
+permission to use the software, under terms specified by the license. These
terms might include how many users or PC's may access the software. The terms
might even include
+a clause allowing the vendor to audit your usage of the software.</p>
+<p>In order to avoid the expense and penalties of a BSA audit, companies
institute Software Asset Management (SAM) practices to ensure that their use of
commercial software complies
+with the applicable licenses. These practices generally include employee
education along with the purchase of software to track licences and software
use within the organization.</p>
+<p>The combined costs of these practices is the "cost of compliance" for using
commercial software. It is an expense that does not make your organization
more productive, does not benefit
+your customers and adds nothing to the bottom line. It is purely risk
mitigation. Along with licence, maintanence and training costs, it is one of
the costs of working with commercial
+software.</p>
+<h2 id="open-source-compliance-costs">Open Source Compliance Costs</h2>
+<p>As opposed to commercial EULA-style software licenses, open source software
have licenses that explicitly permit free redistribution. This reduces the
cost of compliance for many
+organizations.</p>
+<p>However, organizations that use open source software and also develop and
distribute their own proprietary software, can find themselves in trouble due
to the viral nature (copyleft)
+of some open source licenses. If one of your programmers inadvertently
includes some copyleft code into your proprietary product, you could be
required to make the source code for
+your entire product freely available to the public.<br />
+</p>
+<p>This is not a theoretical concern. As aggresively as the BSA, the Software
Freedom Law Center has <a
href="http://www.softwarefreedom.org/news/2009/dec/14/busybox-gpl-lawsuit/";>gone
after large corporations</a> for GPL licence violations, including
+Westinghouse, Samsung and Best Buy.</p>
+<p>So the cost of compliance with copyleft code is as bad or even greater than
the use of proprietary software, since an organization risks being forced to
make the source code
+for their proprietary product public and available for anyone to use, free of
charge. So more employee education, more approval cycles, more audits, more
worries and more risk. This
+is the increased cost of compliance when copyleft software is brought into an
organization.</p>
+<h2 id="advantages-of-the-apache-licence">Advantages of the Apache Licence</h2>
+<p>Not all open source licenses are copyleft licence. Not all of them have
that viral quality that radically increases the risk for an organization. A
subset of open source licences,
+generally called "permissive" licences, are much friendly for corporate use.
These licences include the MIT and BSD licences, as well as the <a
href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0";>Apache Software Licence
2.0</a> that we use.</p>
+<p>Like other open source licences, the Apache Licence explicitly allows you
to copy and redistribute the covered product, without any licence fees or
royalties. But because it is a
+permissive licence, it also allows you to prepare and distribute derivitive
products, without any requirement to make your own source code public. So both
BSA and SFLC risks
+are eliminated. The cost of licence compliance is drastically reduced.</p>
+ </div>
+<!--#include virtual="/footer.html" -->
+</body>
+</html>
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</p>
<h2 id="does-this-look-familiar">Does this look familiar?</h2>
-<p>If you tried to open an ODF document, but you have no application installed
that
-understands ODF then Windows gives you the above dialog box and offers to show
you other applications that could read ODF.</p>
-<p>If this happened to you, thenwe can help. Apache OpenOffice is a free,
open source office suite that can read ODF documents, as well as Microsoft
documents.</p>
+<p>When you try to open an ODF (Open Document Format) document, but you have
no application installed that
+understands ODF then Windows gives you the above dialog box and offers to show
you other applications that can read ODF.</p>
+<p>If this happened to you, then we can help. Apache OpenOffice is a free,
open source office suite that can read ODF documents, as well as Microsoft
documents.</p>
<h2 id="what-are-odf-documents">What are ODF documents?</h2>
<p>ODF is an ISO Interational Standard format for office documents, created in
2006. ODF files have the following file extensions:</p>
<ul>
@@ -44,8 +44,8 @@ published by the non-profit Apache Softw
ODF documents as well as documents from other common office software packages.
It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose.</p>
<p>If you want to read more about Apache OpenOffice, you can look <a
href="/why/">here</a>.</p>
<h2 id="so-what-do-i-need-to-do-to-read-my-odf-document">So what do I need to
do to read my ODF document?</h2>
-<p><a href="/download">Download Apache OpenOffice</a> and install it on your
machine. It only takes a few minutes to download and install.
-Once you have it installed you will be able to read and write ODF documents.
</p>
+<p><a href="/download">Download Apache OpenOffice</a> and install it on your
machine. It only takes a few minutes to download and install. Once you have
it installed you
+will be able to read and write ODF documents. </p>
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