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Date:      Wed, 23 Aug 2000 21:11:34 +0200 (EET)
From:      Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>
To:        j mckitrick <jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org>
Cc:        The Clark Family <res03db2@gte.net>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: OSS, Sun, GPL, random ramblings
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000823210058.68978S-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>
In-Reply-To: <20000823191905.A42818@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>

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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
> -- 
> 



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