Possible fraud??

[Keith Shafe <k....@ntlworld.com>]

Hi Guys 

 

There is a guy on ebay selling Open Office 3.3 which I was led to believe
was a free download.

 

Just thought you might want to check out listing 130676976595 on the UK Ebay
Site.

 

I may be wrong and he has permission from you, if so sorry to have bothered
you but best you know.

 

Kind regards

Keith

Re: Possible fraud??

[Wolf Halton <wo...@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 6:49 AM, Andrea Pescetti <pe...@apache.org>wrote:

> On 13/04/2012 Keith Shafe wrote:
>
>> There is a guy on ebay selling Open Office 3.3 which I was led to believe
>> was a free download.
>>
>
> I don't know the EBay Terms and condition, but the license does not forbid
> this kind of sales.
>
> I just found out that we even have a page about it:
> http://www.openoffice.org/**distribution/ebay_page.html<http://www.openoffice.org/distribution/ebay_page.html>
> but we might want to review it carefully. Maybe it is only reachable
> trough search engines, I didn't find it by browsing the site.
>
> In an earlier occurrence of this issue, Cristian Lohmaier and me had both
> suggested that when someone asks for permission to use the logo on EBay we
> require that he explicitly states that OpenOffice can be downloaded for
> free from the http://www.openoffice.org website. Nobody commented, but
> with OpenOffice 3.4 approaching it would be good to agree on a way to
> handle these requests/situations.
>
> Regards,
>  Andrea.
>

If the license permits it and they are not claiming to be the creator of or
the owner of the trademarks, what recourse would we have?

-Wolf

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Re: Possible fraud??

[Andrea Pescetti <pe...@apache.org>]

On 13/04/2012 Keith Shafe wrote:
> There is a guy on ebay selling Open Office 3.3 which I was led to believe
> was a free download.

I don't know the EBay Terms and condition, but the license does not 
forbid this kind of sales.

I just found out that we even have a page about it:
http://www.openoffice.org/distribution/ebay_page.html
but we might want to review it carefully. Maybe it is only reachable 
trough search engines, I didn't find it by browsing the site.

In an earlier occurrence of this issue, Cristian Lohmaier and me had 
both suggested that when someone asks for permission to use the logo on 
EBay we require that he explicitly states that OpenOffice can be 
downloaded for free from the http://www.openoffice.org website. Nobody 
commented, but with OpenOffice 3.4 approaching it would be good to agree 
on a way to handle these requests/situations.

Regards,
   Andrea.

Re: Possible fraud??

[Kevin Sisco <ke...@gmail.com>]

This is off topic, but anyone can sell the product.  I refer you to
the new general public lisense.


On 4/13/12, Keith Shafe <k....@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Hi Guys
>
>
>
> There is a guy on ebay selling Open Office 3.3 which I was led to believe
> was a free download.
>
>
>
> Just thought you might want to check out listing 130676976595 on the UK Ebay
> Site.
>
>
>
> I may be wrong and he has permission from you, if so sorry to have bothered
> you but best you know.
>
>
>
> Kind regards
>
> Keith
>
>