Re: StarOffice

[Ed Cogburn <ecogburn@greene.xtn.net>]

Christian Lavoie wrote:
> 
> >       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
> - StarDiv does it on its own
> - There's a script used to install StarOffice 3.0 The same could? be done
> for 4.0 and 5.0
> 
> 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?
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	I'm not sure what you mean by 'Linux part'.  What will hopefully happen
is someone building a .deb installer for it, like with Netscape.


-- 
Ed C.