Hello Michael,
Saturday, Saturday, September 18, 1999, you wrote:
Michael Irving> Well when I read the licence agreement when I donwloaded it. It says
that I am
Michael Irving> not allowed to distribute the file that I downloaded. And that licence
Michael Irving> agreement is the one you bind yourself to. So then they better change
their
Michael Irving> licence agreement you get thrown in yer face when you are about to
download.
correct BUT I guess they donot want anyone, especially MS to find a
hole in what they want to do, which is to sabotage Office sales.
Besides licenses like this are known to overstate things and i thought
someone mentioned another distribution (forgot which one) had it
included.
Asking is free and they very likely will say yes.
They probably would even pay the distibutors to include it (g)
Michael Irving> Michael Irving
>> I was just watching the Sun webcast at :
>>
>> http://webevents.broadcast.com/sunmicrosystems/sun0899/
>>
>> And I got the totally opposite impression. The Sun guys
>> were literally begging the Linux distros to pick StarOffice up.
correct, they can do that as its not in writing (!)
>> I do clearly remember them saying that StarOffice is free
>> to distribute. Dont believe me? Watch the webcast. Its a long
>> one but he says it at least a couple of times in the first quarter
>> of the event alone. I didn't watch it all.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 10:44:40AM +0200, Michael Irving wrote:
>> > On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, you wrote:
>> > > Noticed that StarOffice is not included in the Mandrake 6.1 release.
>> > > I am wondering the reason is. No space for it?
>> > >
>> >
>> > The new license that Sun has placed on StarOffice makes it free for use
>> but
>> > restricted for distribution.
>> >
>> > Michael Irving
>>
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