On 05/23/2008 09:28 AM, mike scott wrote: > I'm hoping to make a CD of OOo plus some of the online documentation > (maybe some of my own notes) with a view to giving away copies (or > maybe selling at a nominal cost - haven't decided yet) at a church > coffee morning. > > I thought I'd check the exact wording of the LGPL licence first > though. It does say one's supposed to provide the source code to go > with the installation binary. I don't suppose many bother -- > especially as there aren't many who'd want such a disk and who'd know > what to do with the source :-} > > But out of curiosity, and wanting to stick to the licence terms, > /exactly/ what would I have to bundle in (to be duly ignored by the > recipient) in order to rebuild the windows distribution? Is there a > nice simple single tarball somewhere? > > And does anyone actually bother? Would it satisfy the licence just to > point people at the OOo website at > http://tools.openoffice.org/dev_docs/build_windows.html > ??
I think that this will help: http://www.openoffice.org/about_us/OEM_and_CD.html <quote> General Information You are free to distribute and sell OpenOffice.org. The only legal provision is that users should be kept aware of the location of the source of the executable binaries distributed. That is, all users should be informed that the source can be found on http://www.openoffice.org/. Of course, we also ask that you support the project that makes this possible. . . . License [snip] The essential points are: [snip] 2. You have either to include the source code or tell the users where it is (http://www.openoffice.org); and [snip] </quote> Please also read the rest of the information provided on that page to ensure that you abide by the trademarks, etc. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
