Re: StarOffice
> > StarOffice is probably non-free, thus no one besides the company who
> > created it can legally redistribute it.
> There a few side-solutions then:
>
> - Debian community asks StarDiv the permission
not likely to be granted; stardiv requires registration on a web page.
However, FreeBSD seems to have solved some of these (netscape, for
example) by downloading from the appropriate site. A debian installer
that did this would need tto gather this information from the viewer,
feed it to stardiv, and then do the download.
> - StarDiv does it on its own
this is more likely. Or prived them with a script to turn their
.tgz to .deb.
> - There's a script used to install StarOffice 3.0 The same could? be done
> for 4.0 and 5.0
there have been a few moves towards this by different developers, but
noone has actually done it. I think there's soemthign about
this package that makes it harder than usual.
> Now, for legal matters: Since StarOffice isn't free, we can't theorically
> distribute it. But the Linux part of it is. Which takes precedence?
"the Linux part"? It's a binary that links to standard source code;
there is no linux code in it. It would be a civil & criminal copyright
violation to distribute the binary without permission
rick, esq.
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