[wellylug] Open Office 995

Richard Hector richard at walnut.gen.nz
Thu Aug 25 14:08:29 NZST 2005


On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 11:05:06AM +1200, Wayne Koorts wrote:
> http://www.openoffice995.com/index.html
> 
> They provide you a "free" download edition with a sponsor pop-up and
> charge you $20 for a key to remove it.  It looks like it's just the
> standard OO.

1. They've modified it, to add the pop-up.
2. They're doing this as a business venture, so it's commercial
distribution.

Yet they refer you to http://download.openoffice.org/1.1.0/source.html
if you want the source - looks like a fairly clear GPL violation to me.

Richard




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