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 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 
again downloadable for free.


We are open to everyone, who wants to help developing OpenOffice, 
under the License we distribute the Software with 
(https://www.openoffice.org/license.html).

We need volunteers for:
# producing user Documentation (we are open for all formats)
# user support (we currently have 2 channels: user mailing list, forum)
# evaluating Bug reports
# testing new releases
# anylsing code for bugs
# developing new features in the core of the software or as add on.
# maintaining existing code or add ons.

I am sorry if this goes beyond what you are interested in, but I think 
you need to understand our DNA. (And where free as in it does not cost 
something ends)


Thanks for your time
Peter

On 03.04.2018 19:34, Stevenson, Victoria wrote:


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

Lone Star College

30555 Tomball Parkway, S-209

Tomball, Texas 77375

281-357-3788 (office)

tori.steven...@lonestar.edu 

LoneStar.edu/OTS 

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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 again 
downloadable for free.


We are open to everyone, who wants to help developing OpenOffice, under 
the License we distribute the Software with 
(https://www.openoffice.org/license.html).

We need volunteers for:
# producing user Documentation (we are open for all formats)
# user support (we currently have 2 channels: user mailing list, forum)
# evaluating Bug reports
# testing new releases
# anylsing code for bugs
# developing new features in the core of the software or as add on.
# maintaining existing code or add ons.

I am sorry if this goes beyond what you are interested in, but I think 
you need to understand our DNA. (And where free as in it does not cost 
something ends)


Thanks for your time
Peter

On 03.04.2018 19:34, Stevenson, Victoria wrote:


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

Lone Star College

30555 Tomball Parkway, S-209

Tomball, Texas  77375

281-357-3788 (office)

tori.steven...@lonestar.edu 

LoneStar.edu/OTS 

cid:image002.gif@01D076D6.DE495090

LSC 20|20 “I act intentionallywith no fearto inspire excellence. I put 
my trustin others, knowing we are better together. And it’s all 
because students matter.”






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 support open source projects by a
donation to Apache Software Foundation.


I'm sure Chuck wanted to mention this website to download the offical 
installation files for OpenOffice:


https://www.openoffice.org/download/

Marcus




On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 10:34 AM, Stevenson, Victoria <
tori.steven...@lonestar.edu> wrote:


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



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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:

https://www.openoffice.org/license.html

Have fun with OpenOffice.

Marcus



Am 03.04.2018 um 19:34 schrieb Stevenson, Victoria:
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



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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 Apache Software Foundation.



On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 10:34 AM, Stevenson, Victoria <
tori.steven...@lonestar.edu> wrote:

> 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
>
> Lone Star College
>
> 30555 Tomball Parkway
> ,
> S-209
>
> Tomball, Texas  77375
>
> 281-357-3788 (office)
>
> tori.steven...@lonestar.edu
>
> LoneStar.edu/OTS 
>
>
>
> [image: cid:image002.gif@01D076D6.DE495090]
>
>
>
> LSC 20|20 “I act intentionally with no fear to inspire excellence. I put
> my trust in others, knowing we are better together. And it’s all because 
> students
> matter.”
>
>
>


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
Lone Star College
30555 Tomball Parkway, S-209
Tomball, Texas  77375
281-357-3788 (office)
tori.steven...@lonestar.edu
LoneStar.edu/OTS

[cid:image002.gif@01D076D6.DE495090]

LSC 20|20 "I act intentionally with no fear to inspire excellence. I put my 
trust in others, knowing we are better together. And it's all because students 
matter."