On Wednesday 03 October 2007 06:16:14 pm Dan Lewis wrote:
> On Wednesday October 3 2007 02:17 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On Wednesday 03 October 2007 03:14:59 pm Frank Cox wrote:
> > > On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 13:41:04 -0500
> > >
> > > Dan Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > You have already received at least two answers to your question.
> > > > Let me add this to what you already have.
> > >
> > > Why do you want him to run up a legal bill when the simple answer
> > > to his question is "yes"?
> > >
> > > Full employment program for lawyers or something?
> >
> > Also to add to this it does not take a lawyer to understand what the
> > license says. One just has to read it.
>
>      Considering all the legal issues faced by every school system, I
> doubt that I suggested anything that they do not have to do all of the
> time: make sure what they are doing is legal. In the vernacular, it is
> called covering your posterior (or words to that effect). Besides, how
> can either one of you be sure that my advice would cost them any
> additional money? And furthermore, it is all OT.

Nope! It is on topic, because it relates directly to the OPs question 
which had to do with using multiple copies of OpenOffice.org on a school 
network.

I for one do not understand why those of you who suggest talking to a 
lawyer about the license covering OpenOffice.org do that. The license is 
easy to read and understand because it is not written in Lawyer BS. 
Lawyer BS is for the purpose of hiding things that only a Lawyer 
understands and that is why they do that. Much like the sneaky things 
Microsoft does with their license and their software file formats.

Open source software was written and licensed to escape all that BS. Why 
try to make it complicated?

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