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Is libreoffice free for commercial use?
First: Nobody forces you to use Oracle. I switched my company first to Amazons Coretto, then to Adoptium, and there are other forks free for commercial use.
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Second: The default database HSQLDB is a Java-database and Oracles report-builder is written in Java, but if necessary you can do a lot without java - even in Base.
Sigh, it’s sad when people claim things they have no idea about.
- OpenJDK (the official Java reference implementation) uses GNU GPL, available from lots of vendors (e.g., Adoptium), and is completely FLOSS, and free for commercial use.
- Base is usable without Java; only some pieces like wizards depend on it, but not everyone needs them.
Since this blog will not allow me to delete my post, I’ll respond. “Nobody forces you to use Oracle.” and “…it’s sad when people claim…” These are inflamatory statements, unnecessary to get your points across. Guys, I thank you for the Adoptium information, but you should delete those lines from your posts.
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Fact is, LibreOffice Base is not a COMMERCIAL database. Besides the latest version being incredibly buggy (eg. corrupting /unable to save form formating), Base has one limitation that TOTALLY removes it from being considered a professional COMMERCIAL tool: There is no Find Record feature in Forms as there is in Tables (at least, not one that works, though there is a menu item). This prevents a commercial user from moving instantly to a specific record to update data. Do not suggest running a query or a filter as a substitution, which ISOLATES data. It’s not the same thing and much too complex for commercial use.
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It is also the reason the first video that appears on YouTube when you search on LibreOffice Base is for Shopify and most YT videos on Base are nine or ten years old.
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Please, PLEASE, don’t tell me this is off-topic. Have a little empathy for the person attracted to the title of this blog page, understand the answer they are looking for, the question they are REALLY asking. They want to know: “Should I spend my time trying to use LO Base to create a database for my company?”
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Nowhere does the Foundation warn the unsuspecting designer about how much time he or she will waste trying to use this program. The person who comes here badly needs such a warning prominently displayed and easily accessible (ideally on the download page). I would love to create a beautiful database for my company using LO Base, but Base doesn’t work right. These are features/bugs that Paradox (which I used in my last company very nicely) had down/fixed 20 years ago.
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Base is the forgotten orphan child of the set. If none of the Foundation’s programmers want to clean it up, better they remove it from the suite than keep it hanging around where its existence casts a dark shadow on the other fine tools like Writer and Calc!
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Thank you.
PLEASE!!! There is not a single word in the question about Base. If you will continue, I will flag your message.
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Yes - but note that there’s no free technical support offered (except for peer-to-peer help resources like this one, without any guarantee).
Yes you are right, if you define “free=no cost” - but there is another aspect and this is “license”. And related to license it is not free of a license (MPL v2.0), which has a binding nature to the user of LibreOffice (I know about discussion of Free Software, OpenSource etc, their respective differentiation, but just want to point that commercial users need to abide by an agreement like all users of LibreOffice)
Let’s say, if you wish to use LibreOffice in your company, you will face no problems.
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But, if you wish to integrate LibreOffice in your product and maybe sell the result, then read the licences very carefully.
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Using LibreOffice to provide services like proof-reading, document-conversion or developing macros should pose no problem, but keep an eye on the usage of names, logos, trademarks when advertising…
yes it’s free for commercial using