From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Aug 23 12:13: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF01637B422 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 12:12:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA22183; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 21:11:35 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 21:11:34 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi To: j mckitrick Cc: The Clark Family , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OSS, Sun, GPL, random ramblings In-Reply-To: <20000823191905.A42818@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, j mckitrick wrote: > On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 12:53:39PM +0200, Narvi wrote: > | > Just to set my memory straight, wasn't Star Office a standalone GPL > | > project, even before Sun came along? > | > | No. Staroffice was a closed source project that belong to a company that > | Sun bought. > > star division of germany > Precisely. While Staroffice was 'free for private use', it was sufficently confusingly worded that I still don't know if I complied with it 8-( IMHO that StarOffice is for the present in Sun's hands and what it is doing with it is a very positive thing. Including for the *BSD. > > jcm > -- > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message