Commercial License

[jayavel]

Dear User,
We have planned to use the Open Office source code(v2.4 and v3.0) (LINUX version) to port the solution to ARM Mobile device.
After succesful completion of porting, we are planned to sell the mobile device in market which includes the Open Office ported solution.
I am very keen to know the Open Office license method to do it for commercial purpose.

Some of the queries below needs to clarify from your end.
1. Whether I need to provide the Open Office ported solution (Source Code) to community back?
2. Can I change Open license information to our company name in executable of mobile?
Moreover, we are quite new to Open Source community about the license methods like GPL and LGPL.
Please provide me perfect and practical way to proceed this process.

Thanks in advance!

Warm Regards,
Jayavel

[ccornell]

OpenOffice.org is released under the LGPLv3. If you use the source code for another project (which you can - examples include IBM Lotus Symphony, Sun Star Office, Red Flag Red Office and many others) you must adhere to ALL of the terms of the license.

The license text for LGPLv3 is here: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html

See also here: http://about.openoffice.org/index.html#licenses