On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 03:06:10PM -0500, H. S. Teoh wrote: > On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 01:40:12PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 01:13:13PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > > > Secondly, since OpenOffice seems to be GPL'd, I am wondering why it is in > > > contrib instead of main. > > Build-dependency on Java. > Excuse me for butting in here, but aren't there GPL'd Java compilers in > main already? Or does OpenOffice require a non-DFSG Java compiler? The current build system for the OpenOffice packages depends on specific, non-free Java implementations. Whether or not it can be modified to use alternatives from main is left as an exercise for the reader. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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