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Is a Microsoft Office license required to view Excel files?

We currently generate reports in MS Excel format. Our client just called to ask if we could generate those reports in OpenOffice format instead. Their reason is that their entire office is being purged of Microsoft Office, as their license has expired, and they are no longer willing to renew their license. As a consequence, they want ...

Distributing a GPL utility program with commercial software

My company is considering distributing a sql profiler with our commercial software to make support and diagnostics easier. A few questions I have: Do we have to ship the source code with our setup? Or is hosting it on our website or a link to the project website enough? Can we create a shortcut to the GPL tool or is that called derived...