Re: Licensing for College

2018-04-04 Thread Peter Kovacs
Hello Miss Victoria Stevenson, Please take my appologies, I saw the adress tori.steven...@lonestar.edu and assumed a male person. I am deeply sorry for the gender confusion. All the best Peter Kovacs On 04.04.2018 22:47, Peter Kovacs wrote: Hello

Re: Licensing for College

2018-04-04 Thread Peter Kovacs
Hello Mr Stevenson, I would like to add a small, but important detail. The use of the software "As is", is free as stated already. The development /maintenance of the product is not free. It costs involvement of volunteers. If the team of Volunteers manage to bring out a new version, it is

Re: Licensing for College

2018-04-04 Thread Marcus
Am 04.04.2018 um 21:23 schrieb Chuck Davis: Victoria, all Apache products are open source and freely available to use on as many computers as you wish for the cost of a free download. OpenOffice is available at www.openoffice.apache.org. DO NOT pay anybody to use OpenOffice unless you wish to

Re: Licensing for College

2018-04-04 Thread Marcus
Hi Tori, yes, OpenOffice is open source software. And therefore free of any license fees. You can use it for private purposes, or educational, for commercial businesses or a charity background. Fore more details please see the license of the Apache Software Foundation we are using:

Re: Licensing for College

2018-04-04 Thread Chuck Davis
Victoria, all Apache products are open source and freely available to use on as many computers as you wish for the cost of a free download. OpenOffice is available at www.openoffice.apache.org. DO NOT pay anybody to use OpenOffice unless you wish to support open source projects by a donation to

Licensing for College

2018-04-04 Thread Stevenson, Victoria
Hello, We have 3 laptops that have been donated to our College. We are writing to make sure Open Office can be used for education or business use without violating any licensing. Please let us know. Thank you, Tori Stevenson, ITIL Client Technologies Tech I Office of Technology Services