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 > -- > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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