You are correct, Redhat and SuSe (among others) sell distributions that include OpenOffice.org. However, the point of my comment is that OpenOffice.org is a free download (hence non-commercial) although commercial distributors such as RedHat, etc., may certainly bundle it in their offerings and sell those. What they are selling is the packaging, their own software, and whatever other elements they include in package, as well as service, etc.
Further, OpenOffice.org is not GPL but SISSL and LGPL.
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GPC is indeed a requisite for building OpenOffice.org for Linux (see http://tools.openoffice.org/dev_docs/build_linux.h tml#GeneratingtheBuildEnvironmentandBuildTools ). According to the GPC site, http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/aig/staff/alan/software//i ndex.html, "This software is free for non-commercial use. Anyone wishing to use the gpc library in support of a commercial product please email gpc@cs.man.ac.uk." OpenOffice.org is non-commercial. It is not sold but obtainable for free from the website, http://www.openoffice.org/. But, of course, it would be more in keeping with open-source work methods if all the tools needed were open source. Thus, if you can create such a tool, or persuade the owner of GPC to open-source his tool,or point us to a satisfactory open-source equivalent, please go ahead. It seems a better strategy than to complain that OpenOffice.org is a sham. Louis OpenOffice.org
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You are correct, Redhat and SuSe (among others) sell distributions that include OpenOffice.org. However, the point of my comment is that OpenOffice.org is a free download (hence non-commercial) although commercial distributors such as RedHat, etc., may certainly bundle it in their offerings and sell those. What they are selling is the packaging, their own software, and whatever other elements they include in package, as well as service, etc. Further, OpenOffice.org is not GPL but SISSL and LGPL. louis
GPC is indeed a requisite for building OpenOffice.org for Linux (see http://tools.openoffice.org/dev_docs/build_linux.h tml#GeneratingtheBuildEnvironmentandBuildTools ) .i ndex.html, "This software is free for non-commercial use. Anyone wishing to use the gpc library in support of a commercial product please email gpc@cs.man.ac.uk." OpenOffice.org is non-commercial. It is not sold but obtainable for free from the website, http://www.openoffice.org/. But, of course, it would be more in keeping with open-source work methods if all the tools needed were open source. Thus, if you can create such a tool, or persuade the owner of GPC to open-source his tool,or point us to a satisfactory open-source equivalent, please go ahead. It seems a better strategy than to complain that OpenOffice.org is a sham.
According to the GPC site, http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/aig/staff/alan/software//
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