[Sussex] Licence question

[Andrew Guard]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Geoffrey Teale [mailto:tealeg at member.fsf.org]
> Sent: 07 February 2004 18:43
> To: LUG email list for the Sussex Counties
> Subject: Re: [Sussex] Licence question
> 
> 

> The only restriction on this is the license agreement that 
> you have with
> the publisher of the spreadsheet application.  IF it happens to be a
> recent version of Microsoft Excel then you may well find that your
> spreadsheet isn't entirely yours to license as you wish.  
> C'est la vie,
> bon chance, et Vive la resistance.
>    

Simple if have already did this you could load the file in OpenOffice.Org
and save it from that.

It other words you will be give M$ the big 1 finger hand single, if get my
drift.

> 
> Regards
> Geoff Teale
> Free Software Foundation
> 
> On Sat, 2004-02-07 at 00:10 +0000, Gavin Stevens wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I have recently created a spreadsheet for my partner to 
> help her with her 
> > Homoeopathic case taking. It appears that it has 
> significant advantages 
> > over spreadsheets used by her fellow students in that it actually 
> > calculates the "score" for each remedy as you go. In 
> particular, it counts 
> > the number of columns used, which is used in the reckoning 
> for each remedy.
> > 
> > I am only too happy to share this work with Tracy's fellow 
> homoeopathy 
> > students if it will be of use to them. What I don't want to 
> happen is for 
> > someone to turn round & say they created it, or to derive 
> some other work 
> > from it & then use it for profit (some homoeopathic 
> repertory programmes 
> > sell for over £1,000) instead of sharing it with the community.
> > 
> > My question regarding licence is to do with the fact that a 
> spreadsheet 
> > file is not exactly software in its own right, just a file 
> really, albeit 
> > with formulae & other things designed to help the user.
> > 
> > I am aware of things like Copyleft & open documentation, 
> which seem to be a 
> > GPL for things that aren't directly derived from code. Does 
> anyone have any 
> > ideas about which of the above, or any other type of open 
> licence that 
> > could apply to a spreadsheet file of this type?
> > 
> > Any thoughts welcome.
> > 
> > Gavin.
> > 
> > 
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> Geoffrey Teale <tealeg at member.fsf.org>
> Free Software Foundation
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