OpenOffice license legality

[Sergij <we...@goldmirror.com.ua>]

Our company wants to buy a licensed OpenOfficePL from this company https://openoffice.com.pl/kategoria-produktu/professional/

It's not cheap and I'm alarmed that:

  1.  The website lacks any information about the legal status of the product.
  2.  It looks as if it is the same software product which can be freely downloaded from https://www.openoffice.org/download/ only with a different icon.

Please explain if this is legal.


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Best Regards

Re: OpenOffice license legality

[Roman Shaposhnik <rv...@apache.org>]

Hi Sergij!

On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 1:52 AM Sergij <we...@goldmirror.com.ua> wrote:
>
> Our company wants to buy a licensed OpenOfficePL from this company https://openoffice.com.pl/kategoria-produktu/professional/
>
> It's not cheap and I'm alarmed that:
>
> The website lacks any information about the legal status of the product.
> It looks as if it is the same software product which can be freely downloaded from https://www.openoffice.org/download/ only with a different icon.
>
>
> Please explain if this is legal.

It is absolutely legal to sell products built on top of Apache
Licensed projects.

You will need to determine how much it is worth to you vs. downloading
the project itself.

However, it is NOT OK to call it something as close to the original
project name as your example shows. But that's a separate issue that
has nothing to do with this company charging money for their product
(IOW if the product was called FOO Office -- everything would've been
100% OK).

Thanks for bringing the naming issue to my attention -- I will follow
up separately.

Thanks,
Roman.

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