Re: help

[Sven LUTHER <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>]

On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 12:09:24AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 09:00:51AM +0100, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> > 
> > What license doesit come under ?
> 
> Staroffice is very non-free.  OpenOffice is GPL (or dual
> GPL/somesunlicence) someone made an ITP months ago for OpenOffice
> nothing has materielized yet.  

it's LGPL + Sun's SISSL.

> > is it sufficiently free to be a debian package ?
> 
> OpenOffice yes, StarOffice no.  

StarOffice don't compile on ppc, form what i have heard, 

> > And if not, is there some project fro a installer deb or something such ?
> 
> see above.  
> 
> > And if not, what is the best way of installing it ?
> 
> see penguinppc.org for some info on dealing with OpenOffice.  so far
> its a real bitch.  

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Friendly,

Sven Luther