From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Sep 21 14:54:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA19916 for stable-outgoing; Sun, 21 Sep 1997 14:54:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from usr03.primenet.com (root@usr03.primenet.com [206.165.6.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA19908 for ; Sun, 21 Sep 1997 14:54:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from primenet.com (root@mailhost01.primenet.com [206.165.5.52]) by usr03.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA08417; Sun, 21 Sep 1997 14:54:37 -0700 (MST) Received: from foo.primenet.com (ip204.sjc.primenet.com [206.165.96.204]) by primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA18809; Sun, 21 Sep 1997 14:54:35 -0700 (MST) Received: (from bkogawa@localhost) by foo.primenet.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) id PAA18877; Sun, 21 Sep 1997 15:01:08 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 15:01:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199709212201.PAA18877@foo.primenet.com> To: jamil@counterintelligence.ml.org Subject: Re: Star Office Newsgroups: localhost.freebsd.stable References: From: "Bryan K. Ogawa" Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #1 (NOV) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In localhost.freebsd.stable you write: >I did a make on this port --- can someone explain what the deal with it is >-- I was reading calderas web page, Is this a commercial procduct (or >demo) is everything not supposed to work right or what? How did this get >ported to freebsd in the first place -- is there a native port to be done >as a commercial product? Q: How did it get ported to FreeBSD? A. Unless we're talking about different versions of the software, it's Linux software, so it's running under the Linux emulation. If you mean "how did we get our hands on binaries", the educational/nonprofit/evaluation version is available via public FTP (look at the Makefile for where). Q: Is this a commercial product? A: Yes. Caldera carries it. Q: Is it available for free on the Internet? A: Yes. See above. If I have understood the license (I Am Not A Lawyer), you can use it if you're a non-profit or educational user, or evaluate it if you are a commercial or non-commercial user. If you are a commercial user, you can evaluate it for 90 days; if you are a non-commercial user, you can "evaluate" it as long as you want to. The literature seems to indicate that StarDivision fully expects individuals to take advantage of the unlimited evaluation period for it. Q: Is there a native port in the works? A: I heard some rumbling about this as part of a commercial FreeBSD offering, but nothing beyond that. Does anyone know the status of the whole commercial FreeBSD offering thing (with XAccel, etc.?)? -- bryan k ogawa http://www.primenet.com/~bkogawa/