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On Wednesday 07 August 2002 17:01, you wrote:
My boss has just called me into his office and asked me to explain "GPL in one sentence".
Good!
Torbay Council) may be at least looking at alternatives to MS office desktop so sure enough the conversation got around to how Star Office was licensed, which stumped me because I couldnt work out how Star Office actually fits in the scheme of GPL. Let me elaborate :-
Star Office 5.2 source code was all released, and licenced under the GPL. SUN at that time and now sold support and consultancy, which I submit a large organisation with complex needs would probably want. The source code, having been released, was taken up by the OpenOffice project, who prepared a somewhat slimmed down still GPL version, which is now OpenOffice 1.0.1 Meanwhile, and I'm not sure how the code diverges and converges and knits itself around here, SUN produced a somewhat slimmed down version which is Star Office 6.0 This AFAIK contains the code released to OpenOffice, and contains more which is under a SUN licence of some sort I believe, hence saleable. -- From one of the Linux desktops of Dr Adrian Midgley http://www.defoam.net/ -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.