Group: OpenOfficeExtensions/NonFree
Problematic extensions
The official OpenOffice.org extensions repository offers many addons to extend OpenOffice.org with additional features.
While OpenOffice.org is free software, it has a policy of also listing proprietary extensions in with the free software ones.
With the purpose of fostering the development of fully-free alternatives, here is a list of the OpenOffice extensions that present some issue related to software freedom. This list can also serve as a resource for trying to fix the freedom issues of these extensions.
Please see Group:OpenOfficeExtensions/List for the list of free software extensions, and Group:OpenOfficeExtensions for more information about the listing, how use it, and how to contribute.
Extensions are listed by date of insertion into the list.
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| Name | Description | Copyright status/License | Freedom issues | Version of the extension when it was reviewed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| .riess Date Browser | Date Browser | No copyright stated. License is here. | License is unclear about modification & redistribution. It does say "reselling" is not allowed. Contacting the author. | ? |
| A Letras | Install two functions in Calc in the section Text to describe a integer number in Spanish or English. | J. Eduardo Moreno | License permits only gratis verbatim distribution | 1.1.0 |
| Calc2LaTeX | A macro for converting tables. It makes making tables on LaTeX very easy. | Public Domain per http://calc2latex.sourceforge.net/ | Extension doesn't explicitly define a license | 0.2.4 |
| eFax | Extension for using eFax from within OpenOffice | Sun Microsystems | License states that you may not copy, modify or distribute the software. | ? |
| MySQL Connector for OpenOffice.org | Native driver for MySQL databases. | LGPLv3 only. | Windows (and probably other OS's) packages contain object code (DLLs) without a copy of the source code, or an offer to provide it. | 1.0.0 |
| ExtensionName | <extension description> | <copyright and licensing info goes here> | <describe here the freedom issues of this extension> | <reviewed version info here> |
