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List:       openoffice-discuss
Subject:    Re: [discuss] Star Office and GPL
From:       ephemeron <ephemeron () uk2 ! net>
Date:       2001-12-25 17:03:04
Message-ID: 1009273117.1030.3.camel () alpha
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On Sat, 2001-12-22 at 01:00, Noah silva wrote:
> > 
> > Is it possible to included these templates in open office? If not is
> > this due to star office being built from the other Sun Open source
> > licence?  I believe this is a fundermental problem with releasing under
> > non GPL licences, users and developers can not fold back in advancements
> > like this. BSD has the same problem licence. IMO
> 
> Yes, and GPL has the problem that someone can not build a better
> commercial product from a free product.

I see nothing in the GPL that prevents a commercial product from being
built out of a free (as in speech) product. Linux-Mandrake and Redhat
are commercial Linux distributions (as against the non-commercial
Debian) with freely available source to many of the programs included
with them.




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