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on the wrong side of the digital divide. For tens of thousands of
community members, this makes the OpenOffice.org community their
volunteering opportunity of choice.
The OpenOffice.org community invites contributors. Whatever you do
best, you can do it for OpenOffice.org. As well as software developers,
the Community welcomes translators, artists, technical writers and
editors, testers, people offering user support, sales and marketing
people, lobbyists, donors... the list is long. The Community operates
internationally in all time zones, linked by the internet.
How is OpenOffice.org licensed?
OpenOffice.org is distributed under the Open Source Initiative (OSI)
approved Lesser General Public License (LGPL).
The LGPL can be viewed on the OOo website at:
http://www.openoffice.org/licenses/lgpl_license.html
For more general information on OOo’s licensing, please refer to:
http://www.openoffice.org/license.html
What is “open source”?
The ideals of open-source software can be explained by the four
essential rights, which are embodied within the Free Software
Foundation’s
General Public License
(GPL):
The right to use the software for any purpose.
Freedom to redistribute the software for free or for a fee.
Access to the complete source code of the program (that is, the
“blueprints”).
The right to modify any part of the source, or use portions of it in
other programs.
Another view of this philosophy comes from the
Open Source
Definiton
:
“The basic idea behind open source is very simple: When
programmers can read, redistribute, and modify the source code for
a piece of software, the software evolves. People improve it, people
adapt it, people fix bugs. And this can happen at a speed that, if one
is used to the slow pace of conventional software development,
seems astonishing.”
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