On Saturday March 24 2007 6:19 am, Michael Hall wrote:
> Hiya
>
> Im pretty much new to this group, in fact this is my first post. I
> have been using OOo religiously for a few years and have rolled it
> out in a few small corporate environments where it was greeted with
> open arms (Thanks guys and girls!)
>
> This morning while surfing ebay I was disturbed to find that there
> are a few people selling Open Office and various other GPL'd
> software (Clam AV) in auctions. Is this allowed or shouldn't ebay
> take the same stance on people selling FOSS on ebay as they do with
> viagra sellers/pirates?
>
> Here are a couple of urls:
>
> http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Open-OFFICE-2007-For-Windows-XP-Vista-Ultimat
>e-Pro-Home_W0QQitemZ260099586391QQcategoryZ41856QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
>
> http://cgi.ebay.ca/OPEN-OFFICE-2-1-FOR-WINDOWS-98-ME-XP-VISTA-DOWNL
>OAD-NOW_W0QQitemZ220089613101QQcategoryZ68258QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
>
> Thanks for listening and I would appreciate any feedback on this :)
>
> Mike
Yours is a very common question. However, what these people are
doing is legal. Look at the license that came with your copy of OOo
to see.
Dan
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