On Sunday 22 April 2007, Tom Chilton wrote: > Not really seeing as it is a digital delivery....
So, what is your point? Below is a copy of the license that OpenOffice is distributed under. In the third paragraph below they cover the sale issue. ...Preamble The licenses for most software are designed to take away your freedom to share and change it. By contrast, the GNU General Public Licenses are intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free software--to make sure the software is free for all its users. This license, the Lesser General Public License, applies to some specially designated software packages--typically libraries--of the Free Software Foundation and other authors who decide to use it. You can use it too, but we suggest you first think carefully about whether this license or the ordinary General Public License is the better strategy to use in any particular case, based on the explanations below. When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom of use, not price. Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for this service if you wish); that you receive source code or can get it if you want it; that you can change the software and use pieces of it in new free programs; and that you are informed that you can do these things.... Some where on your computer is a copy of the complete document. It can also be found here: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html Any who has a problem with the sale of Open Source Software (OSS) distributed under the protection of the GNU GPL or LGPL does not under stand the purpose for the license. -- If the word following begins with a vowel, the word you want is... to read the rest of this, go here http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/a.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
