Sebastian Luque wrote:
How can it be ok to sell and distribute something that is free? Can
somebody please explain?
If I give you a product under a particular copyright license, you are
free to distribute it under the terms of that license. If that license
says that charging money is ok, then it's ok. And the ammount of money I
charge you for the original copy has no bearing on the situation. It's
all about the license.
OpenOffice.org is distributed under two licenses (ie. you get to pick).
The SISSL and the LGPL. Details aside, both are official open source
licenses, and they allow you to distribute the software. They do impose
limits on distribution, but money is not one of them. In simple terms,
the SISSL says that if you make changes, the new product must remain
compatible in all ways; and the LGPL says that you must distribute your
changes under the same terms (LGPL).
So, the licenses are not meant to limit how many copies you can
distribute, or whether you can charge for them. They are meant to
prevent you from making an incompatible derivative (roughly speaking).
Cheers,
Daniel.
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