On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 6:49 AM, Andrea Pescetti <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 13/04/2012 Keith Shafe wrote: > >> There is a guy on ebay selling Open Office 3.3 which I was led to believe >> was a free download. >> > > I don't know the EBay Terms and condition, but the license does not forbid > this kind of sales. > > I just found out that we even have a page about it: > http://www.openoffice.org/**distribution/ebay_page.html<http://www.openoffice.org/distribution/ebay_page.html> > but we might want to review it carefully. Maybe it is only reachable > trough search engines, I didn't find it by browsing the site. > > In an earlier occurrence of this issue, Cristian Lohmaier and me had both > suggested that when someone asks for permission to use the logo on EBay we > require that he explicitly states that OpenOffice can be downloaded for > free from the http://www.openoffice.org website. Nobody commented, but > with OpenOffice 3.4 approaching it would be good to agree on a way to > handle these requests/situations. > > Regards, > Andrea. > If the license permits it and they are not claiming to be the creator of or the owner of the trademarks, what recourse would we have? -Wolf -- This Apt Has Super Cow Powers - http://sourcefreedom.com Advancing Libraries Together - http://LYRASIS.org
