What Ms. Cooper has to say about Sun's open-source licensing is
absolutely authoritative, since she spearheaded the entire process for
Sun Microsystems. (Well done!)
I just wanted to add that I slightly misread the text about OpenOffice
on http://www.openoffice.org/license.html . I can see how
Rick's answer is nearly perfect, one small correction...
>And they were as good as their word -- and then some. That refers to
>the OpenOffice project, which is developing the Open Office 6.0
>successor to the Star Office 5.2 codebase (http://www.openoffice.org/).
>The library and component-fram
begin Steve Mallett quotation:
> What the heck is a SUN Binary Code License? I went to install
> StarOffice & when I got to the license agreement I froze.
Star Office 5.2 (which Sun acquired when it bought StarDivision) is
gratis-usage proprietary code. _That_ version will remai
Newbie-esque question here:
What the heck is a SUN Binary Code License?
I went to install StarOffice & when I got to the license agreement I froze.
>From the SUN site:
http://www.sun.com/software/star/staroffice/5.2/faqs-general.html#36 :
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"Many believe that other Sun open initi
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