You wrote:
Hello Jonathan,
I didn't know that the licence for X11 was prohibiting commercial
or 'productiuon' use. AFAIK X11 is open source, and used as a
windowing utility by various open source programs like OOo and the
Gimp. Where did you find this restricting licence information?
Thank you for your mail. I presume the license only applies to the
Apple version. I see it when I insert the OS reinstallation CD, then
double-click on Optional Installs.mpkg which, I believe, is what the
instructions (http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/faq/installing/X11.html)
tell me to click on. The wording is not quite as strong as I put it;
arguably Apple is just washing their hands of liability in case the X11
has bugs. However, the main license for OS X says you are supposed to
erase the entire OS if you ever violate any term of the Apple licensing
agreement. Sounds sort of microsofty, if you ask me. |:-|
Anyway, I wouldn't bother to use OOo under X11 anymore, since ther
is a 'native' Aqua version of OpenOffice.org 3.0.0 available. For
the moment it's still a release candidate (RC4), that is quite
operational yet, but next week or so the fully QA'ed official release
will be made I suppose.
You can download the RC4 directly from the OpenOffice.org website
(www.openoffice.org),
if you're happy with the US English version (the site determines
whether you have a PPC or Intel Mac)
http://openoffice.bouncer.osuosl.org/?product=OpenOffice.org&os=macosxintelaqua&lang=en-US&version=3.0.0rc4from
or you can find other versions at GoodDay
http://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/MacOSX/3.0.0rc4/
download the dmg and install as you would any other program on your
Mac
welcome and good luck
Sounds good: if it is only going to be a few weeks, then I'll wait as
long as it takes for the new version to go through full QA testing.
Thank you again for the detailed reply!
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