2006/10/18, Dan Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: This is a company which
begins with OOo and adds additional
programs to it. This is legal under the OOo license (LGPL).
Dan
Hello,
Maybe it's legal, but it certainly isn't fair trade.
Does the LGPL licence allow this?
They add a few tricks and present themselves as if they invented hot water!
As 'extras' I only see an anti-virus program, an 'advanced calculator' (?),
a diagram creator (draw?) and a PDF creator (?), plus some fancy icons for
the OO.o suite elements.
You cannot even see what is in the package before you cough up 47 $
OO.o, open document or open source is only mentioned somewhere in a small
corner:
I quote:
- Open Office Suite is proprietary software licensed under GNU.
- Nonetheless, a large effort is made to ensure computability with
Open Source standards, as well as making where possible our files and
projects as transparent as possible.
- Good integration with the Open Source Open Office project exists.
- Any changes made to utilized Open Source code are done so under
the terms of the GNU General Public License, and all relevant source code is
in turn provided (or link is provided)
where is the source code, where is the link to it?
if this is allowed under the LGPL, maybe this licence is rather naive?
love to hear comments on this...
--
Guy
