On Monday 06 November 2006 20:36, Chris Sleightholme wrote: > Recently I purchased a "new" product launched by the e-press company called > One. > > I bought it because as a promotional office it gave me some third party > applications I was thinking of buying at a fraction of the price. > > It also gave me a work processor ( Author ) and spread sheet program ( > Numerics ). > > > While investigating an unrelated matter, I find that running up Author > actually starts soffice.exe which I believe is your program ( unless for > some strange reason they have used the same name for theirs ). > > Is this legal ?
That depends. You should have had a license with the product; what did that say? If you cannot find it, then return to the supplier to get a copy of the license. On the face of it, if the program really is an exact copy of OOo, but renamed, then I would call it misrepresentation, but it's not illegal. However, if they have modified it and rebuilt it, then they are obliged by the license to make the source code available. You can check that by asking them for the source code to the product and see what they say. See http://www.openoffice.org/license.html for more details. > > Are third parties OK to use your product and sell it as their own ? > > > > Chris Sleightholme -- Andy Pepperdine On this mailing list help is provided by volunteers. Please subscribe to the mailing list to see all the replies to a query, and reply only to the mailing list. For FAQ, userguide, see: http://documentation.openoffice.org/ For more information about the OOo licence here: http://www.openoffice.org/license.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
