Hello,
I am planning to write a book on using spreadsheet in business applications. May I use portion of LibreOffice Calc screenshots? I mean pictures which show for instance formulas in few cells, without showing the whole GUI?
I am asking because for instance Microsoft disallows doing that. According to their policies every screenshot should be full sized, with whole interface, etc. They only allow to resize the image – nothing else.
Thank you in advance for answering my question.
First, as an aside let me say I am nauseated my MS’s greedy control over every aspect of use of its products. I hadn’t conceived anything at this level existed. The sooner MS is put to rest the better.
Second, I personally can’t conceive of LO restricting such use, and here is an excerpt from the License (my emphasis). I am not a lawyer, so I offer this for informational purposes only.
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non-exclusive license:
a. under intellectual property rights (other than patent or
trademark) Licensable by such
Contributor to use, reproduce, make
available, modify, display,
perform, distribute, and otherwise
exploit its Contributions, either on
an unmodified basis, with
Modifications, or as part of a Larger
Work; and
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