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Re: Staroffice



On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 11:44:16PM +0100, Bruce Stephens wrote:
> Cameron Matheson <cameron@thoughtform.com> writes:
> 
> > Now that Staroffice is open source, will Debian include it?  Or is
> > it not GPL'd?
> 
> Source isn't available yet.  It's due in the autumn, and presumably
> once there's something that works, someone will package it for Debian.

Release is scheduled for Oct 13.

> I'm not quite sure whether it's to be covered by GNU GPL or GNU LGPL,
> or some mixture (different bits covered by different licenses).  I've
> read conflicting accounts.

Main code under GPL.  Some libs under LGPL.  All of it dual-licensed
under SISSL.  The GNU L/GPL portions should meet the SPI definitions.

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