On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 8:04 AM, Tudor Tudor <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, i am a young programmer, a student, and i am searching for a text > editor free of charge to use in a program that i want to make. > > I want o make some money from this program so i am using "lazarus" and i > was > wondering if i can automate open office to help me generate the documents, > edit and print them prom my future program. > > Please help me, i do not know the laws and i do not want to break them when > i will get my licence for the program. > OpenOffice.org is licensed under the LGPL v3 (GNU Lesser General Public License). The OOo web site has pages describing responsibilities under the license. You can look at... the licenses topic on the about page<http://about.openoffice.org/index.html#licenses> the LGPL <http://www.openoffice.org/licenses/lgpl_license.html> that's posted on the OOo web site the Free Software Foundation FAQ <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html> ...and other places. For a clear interpretation of you responsibilities for any derivative work it probably would be worthwhile to check with an attorney. I don't imagine restrictions are too onerous otherwise there wouldn't be so many derivatives like OxygenOffice, Symphony, PortableOffice, etc.
