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[ILUG] licenses & selling openoffice & RH 8.0

[ILUG] licenses & selling openoffice & RH 8.0

Gavin McCullagh ilug_gmc at fiachra.ucd.ie
Mon Oct 28 17:22:06 GMT 2002


Hi,

I've a fundraising sale event coming up.  We frequently look for things to
sell that are useful, novel, etc.  I have previously thought to burn CDs of
useful software and sell them, but only really decided it's worth it this
year.  My immediate thoughts are:

* OpenOffice.org v1.01 binaries for linux/win32
* Mozilla binaries for linux/win32
* RedHat 8.0 (with absolutely no support!)

all would be unmodified.  A couple of things:

1. Is this actually, definitely legal for me to do in each case?
OpenOffice website is a little vague on this (or perhaps I missed
something).  I'm pretty sure it's okay with RH and mozilla, although
perhaps someone knows better.  AFAIR gpl really only refers to source not
binary, I don't think distributing source is any use to these people,
although I'll certainly offer it.  Any pointers to docs on the specific
sites would be great.

2. Assuming answer 1 is yes, I need to be able to prove this to any snide
muppet who comes up telling me I'm a software pirate.  Is there a doc for
each that states this reasonably simply.

3. Any suggestions for other useful stuff?  It's not a technical audience
and is almost entirely windows users.

Thanks in advance,

Gavin




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