RE: Jakarta POI - HWPF for word files

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do FLOSS projects not allow commercial enterprises to sell FLOSS
derived code? I dont need a legal opinion, it is just my impression
that if you sell FLOSS derived code you have to allow the buyer to
copy and distribute your add on as well as the FLOSS code base. If so
that would be a disincentive for a commercial enterprise to pick up an
abandoned FLOSS project.  ( but I guess the same is true for
commercial software. When IBM cut and ran from OS/2 it did not open
source it and its users were left stranded. bad precedent for i5/OS! )
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This depends upon the license. Some licenses (like the Apache license)
let you do whatever you want. Others (like GPL) are quire restrictive.
One of the problems you'll run into with these licenses is that many of
them are a huge jumble of lawyer speak and the only way to know for sure
what they mean is to find a lawyer who deals with this type of thing and
get their opinion.

Matt