But "Company A" is required to make the source of OOo AND the source of any derived application available, not only to "Company B", but to everyone. At least, I believe that was the case the last time I read such licences... admitedly some years ago.
That requirement needn't stop anybody who wants to make money by developing an existing open-source software (like OpenOffice) to serve a niche need - after all, "Company B" is obviously not interested in doing their own development work. However, the requirement to share the source of derived works does allow other people to see your work and either improve it or take it and just repackage, thus allowing them to compete with you, using your own work. Basically, in FLOSS environment, you can't have "secret sauce" proprietary code unless you make it stand-alone, self-contained, not based on the open-source code. Aside from shareware, the common way to make money with open-source applications is to pretty-much give the product away, and charge for service/support/integration instead. - k > -----Original Message----- > From: Dan Lewis [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 2:00 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [users] Re: Need help on licensing! > > On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 19:06 +0530, [email protected] > wrote: > > Hi > > > > Thank you for going through this email. I have a basic > query: If some > > "Company A" customizes open office and make it a product with some > > other features and then gives the same to "Company B", Can > "Company A" > > charge "Company B" for the same? if they could, on what basis? > > > > It would be great, if you could respond to me asap. > > > > look forward > > > > > > Arnab Mitra - Regional > > Director - India & South Asia [...] > If you have OOo (Openoffice.org)[you refer to this as > open office] > installed on a computer, it contains the license that applies > to it. The > name of the file: license.html. You will find it located in a > Openofice.org folder. > If you read this license carefully, you will discover > that you can > do what you are asking. The license also permits Company A to sell > Openoffice.org to Company B without making any changes to the program. > > Dan The information contained in this electronic mail transmission may be privileged and confidential, and therefore, protected from disclosure. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to this message and deleting it from your computer without copying or disclosing it. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] with Subject: help
