Author: robweir
Date: Sat Jul 27 21:22:55 2013
New Revision: 1507714
URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1507714
Log:
Removed names of BSA targets
Modified:
openoffice/ooo-site/trunk/content/why/why_compliance.mdtext
Modified: openoffice/ooo-site/trunk/content/why/why_compliance.mdtext
URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/openoffice/ooo-site/trunk/content/why/why_compliance.mdtext?rev=1507714&r1=1507713&r2=1507714&view=diff
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--- openoffice/ooo-site/trunk/content/why/why_compliance.mdtext (original)
+++ openoffice/ooo-site/trunk/content/why/why_compliance.mdtext Sat Jul 27
21:22:55 2013
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ employer (or ex-employer) for software p
They call this campaign, "Bust your Boss!" Rewards can range up to $1 million.
-As you probably already know, you don't own commercial software in the same
way you own a chair or a desk. Instead, you license the software from the
vendor, and this license gives you
+As you probably already know, you don't own software in the same way you own a
chair or a desk. Instead, you license the software from the publisher, and
this license gives you
permission to use the software, but only under terms specified by the license.
These terms typically say how many users or PC's may access the software. The
terms might even include
a clause allowing the vendor to audit your usage of the software.
@@ -43,11 +43,11 @@ organizations, since tracking applicatio
However, organizations that use open source software and also develop and
distribute their own proprietary software, can find themselves in trouble due
to the viral nature (copyleft)
of some open source licenses. If one of your employees or contractors
inadvertently includes some copyleft code in your proprietary product, then you
could be required by that license
-to make the source code for your entire product freely available to the
public. That could kill your business.
+to make the source code for your entire product freely available to the public.
This is not just a theoretical concern. As aggressively as the BSA protects
the interests of its commercial members, the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC)
protects the GPL license
-in [high-profile lawsuits against large corporations][2], including
Westinghouse, Samsung and Best Buy. The Free Software Foundation (FSF), in
their [November 2012 Bulletin][4],
-writes about their expansion of "active license enforcement".
+in [high-profile lawsuits against large corporations][2]. The Free Software
Foundation (FSF), in their [November 2012 Bulletin][4], writes about their
expansion of
+"active license enforcement".
So the cost of compliance with copyleft code can be even greater than the use
of proprietary software, since an organization risks being forced to make the
source code
for their proprietary product public and available for anyone to use, free of
charge. To mitigate this risk requires more employee education, more approval
cycles, more internal audits
@@ -62,8 +62,8 @@ licenses, generally called "permissive"
[Apache Software License 2.0][3] that we use for Apache OpenOffice.
Like other open source licenses, the Apache License explicitly allows you to
copy and redistribute the covered product, without any license fees or
royalties. But because it is a
-permissive license, it also allows you to prepare and distribute derivative
products, without any requirement to make your own source code public. So both
BSA and SFLC/FSF risks
-are eliminated, and the cost, to your business, of license compliance is
drastically reduced.
+permissive license, it also allows you to prepare and distribute derivative
products, without requiring you to make your own source code public. So both
BSA and SFLC/FSF risks
+are eliminated, and the cost, to your business, of license compliance is
greatly reduced.
[1]: https://reporting.bsa.org/r/report/add.aspx?src=us
