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Star office liscense question

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Name: bauer172uw
Date: February 2, 2003 at 17:21:13 Pacific
OS: Mandrake 9.0
CPU/Ram: 800mhz / 512MB
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I am looking into getting Star Office 6.0 on ebay. I am looking at an auction that sells CDR's of both Suse 8.1 Pro and Star Office 6.0. He claims that he can sell these CDRs under the GNU GPL liscense. Is this true and legal? I just want to make sure that if I buy the software it's legal. Here is a link to the auction.


http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3400028292&category=4619




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Response Number 1
Name: Jake
Date: February 2, 2003 at 17:47:57 Pacific
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Yes, it's legal to sell GPL software.

I wouldn't buy StarOffice, because OpenOffice.org offers most of the same features, but for free. I think the only difference other than the name is that SO comes with Sun's database, and OO doesn't.


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Response Number 2
Name: Trip
Date: February 2, 2003 at 19:07:02 Pacific
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It may be legal to sell GPL software but StarOffice is not GPL'd and the version of Suse being sold is not available except from a purchased copy you would buy in a store.

I would in fact call this piracy, at least for SA and possibly for the version of suse being sold.


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Response Number 3
Name: Hmmm
Date: February 2, 2003 at 21:13:47 Pacific
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I agree with Trip. That SO 6.0 is a comercial product so the guy is ilegilly actioning it same goes for SuSe as same portions of it are'nt GPL'd.


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Response Number 4
Name: Balram Adlakha
Date: February 3, 2003 at 14:25:01 Pacific
Reply:

Yes, I guess thats the reason why there are
no SuSE ISO images floating around...Coz
there are so many commercial products
included in it that it would be very
difficult to package it again to create a
downloadable iso image for free...
Another reason to use redhat instead of
SuSE...


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Response Number 5
Name: Ronald
Date: February 4, 2003 at 03:49:11 Pacific
Reply:

You are allowed to sell proprietary software as long as you destroy any of the backups. I own star office 6.0 it has a few more features than OOo besides the database. Is it worth the 75$ more? probably not. You can change the colors of the fonts in writer/text and there are more templats. The liscence for Star Office 6.0 states that you can put it on up to 5 PCs that you use. I only use Star on Windoze and use OOo on Linux as to stay non proprietary. You can buy Suse 8.1 pro at BestBuy and it comes with Star Office 6.0 for 79$ US
Take Care
Ron
PS SuSe Yast is also non GPL


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Response Number 6
Name: Rick
Date: February 4, 2003 at 13:09:45 Pacific
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You can only sell the org disc, NOT COPIES. If the guy is selling the org discs that he no longer wants etc., thats ok, but if he's selling lots of copies then not ok.


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