On Monday May 28 2007 8:23 am, Buresté Guillaume wrote:
> Dear Sir, Madam,
>
> As part of Tacis - European Union Project, we are rufurbishing 3
> georgian universities for better networking and ressources sharing
> within a newly developped European Academic carrer developped in
> this country
>
> We need to choose an office solution for 50 workstations, and we
> are of course looking for the best quality/cost balance.
>
> As a private user I recognise the great quality of Open Office 2,
> and I wonder which licensing system would allow us to use this
> software in our Universities in Tbilisi, Batumi and Telavi.
>
> Is the GPL complient to our academic use ?
> if not, which system/pricing would be possible ?
>
> This is an Urgent request,
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Guillaume Buresté
> Tacis Project - Institute for European Studies
OpenOffice.org only has one license which covers private as well
as public and commercial uses. You will find the license here:
www.openoffice.org/license.html. Have this license read by someone who
can give you a legal opinion. They should tell you what I am about to
write: you can install OpenOffice.org on as many computers in as many
universities as you want. Your total cost will all be involved in
installing the program on all the computers. You are also permitted
to provide copies of the program for students who would want to have
a copy on their person computers.
One more important point to consider. Sun Microsystems has a
program called Star Office which is based upon OpenOffice.org. Star
Office has some proprietary items that OOo does not have. Being a
educational institution, you should be able to get a license at no
cost to install Star Office instead of OpenOffice.org on the
computers in the universities and the students' computers. For this,
you need to check www.sun.com/staroffice/.
Dan
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