aaaah...... So am I thinking of the GPL? Or was is purely Linus' original Linux license that said you couldn't make money from distribution....? On 09 Jun 2003 10:46:08 +0100, ian wrote

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But better, why not join the OO.org project? Anyone can take part - very good education experience for say kids to contribute to say Quality Assurance or Marketing. They could, for example, press and sell their own OO.org CDs. Great focus for an after school IT club, Young Enterprise, Business Studies etc. Motivating too because they get to work on a real project that is world-wide and worthwhile. Good for international links as most of the lists are truly international. So you have scope in IT, Business, MFL as a minimum.

Is this actually allowed? My understanding was that money couldn't be made from distribution? And since that *is* the aim of at least Young Enterprise...?

You are *encouraged* to make money from redistribution! People sell OO.org discs perfectly legally on e-bay. They are selling a service putting OO.org on to discs etc, they are not selling the code. We will sell you an OO.org CD for a fiver as an OO.org community distributor. Your kids could sell services around OO.org eg training, telephone support or whatever. The OO.org marketing project want as many people supporting OO.org as possible, so if one of your enterprising kids took some discs to Granada and persuaded them to stock them at say £3 each in all the motorway service stations with say £1 back to the school for each one sold there would be rejoicing on the marketing list. The only thing we ask is that you use the official artwork for labels etc (downloadable from the OO.org website) and don't do anything illegal in the name of OO.org. You can also subscribe to users@openoffice.org to get help with specific issues - its free but a lot of traffic on it. So your young enterprisers also have a backup support line.

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Robb Bloomfield wrote:

So am I thinking of the GPL? Or was is purely Linus' original Linux license that said you couldn't make money from distribution....?

No, I sell GPL software. Looking at Glyn Moody's "Rebel Code" page 44, Linus's original licence forbade charging any fee for distribution. Maybe that is what you're thinking of? -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only and possibly not of any group I know. http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ jabber://slef@jabber.at Creative copyleft computing services via http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ Thought: "Changeset algebra is really difficult."

Robb Bloomfield wrote:

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So am I thinking of the GPL? Or was is purely Linus' original Linux

That's it! I started to re-read it again the other day and got confused :) Great book though... On Mon, 09 Jun 2003 23:17:42 -0000, MJ Ray wrote license

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that said you couldn't make money from distribution....?

No, I sell GPL software. Looking at Glyn Moody's "Rebel Code" page 44, Linus's original licence forbade charging any fee for distribution. Maybe that is what you're thinking of?

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