Wanted: Cheap Laptop

[nixgeek]

Originally Posted by #1 Rhapsody

I was browsing eBay for Macs and look what I found this. Someone trying to sell OpenOffice!

Report it. Mind you, I'm not that surprised to find stuff like this on eBay. Reminds me of the $10,000 Apple II system that was listed on there some time back as the "FIRST COMPUTER EVER!!!!!1!1!".

[icemanjc]

He's selling it on a CD-R for your convenience....... Price + Shipping = alot more than 10 cents to buy a CD-R.......

[g/re/p]

But wouldn't he STILL need to have some sort of licensing arrangement with OpenOffice?

My guess is that he has no such agreement, and is therefore breaking the law.

[ElDiabloConCaca]

OpenOffice is open-source, meaning, basically, you can do with it what you will (within the terms of the license, and the license says nada about selling OpenOffice).

Selling OpenOffice is perfectly legal:

http://user.services.openoffice.org/...435&hilit=sell

[VirtualTracy]

Many vendors repackage and sell OpenOffice.org on CD or DVD as a convenience service for people who cannot download the binaries (for example because of a slow connection). If you look here http://distribution.openoffice.org/cdrom/ you will see that there are loads of vendors selling OpenOffice.org on CD and/or DVD.

This is a quote from El's link and if you read through the eBay items listing details, it pretty much has an identical spiel.

It's like as if your country has oil reserves offshore but those who have the rights to drill for it and pipe it back to their country end up selling it back to you ...

[nixgeek]

Originally Posted by g/re/p

But wouldn't he STILL need to have some sort of licensing arrangement with OpenOffice?

My guess is that he has no such agreement, and is therefore breaking the law.

Here's the link for distributors directly from the OpenOffice.org website:
http://www.openoffice.org/about_us/OEM_and_CD.html

[ElDiabloConCaca]

Remember these guys?

http://www.openosx.com/

They re-package and sell a lot of open-source software (GIMP, GRASS, OpenOffice, AbiWord, etc.). Perfectly legal.

[nixgeek]

Originally Posted by ElDiabloConCaca

Remember these guys?

http://www.openosx.com/

They re-package and sell a lot of open-source software (GIMP, GRASS, OpenOffice, AbiWord, etc.). Perfectly legal.

I wonder if he's including everything that's stipulated in the LGPL license, though. He would have to include the source or link to it in the case of OpenOffice.org. Plus, he could not use their logo unless he's received permission.