From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 22 17:40:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.www-service.de (smtp.www-service.de [212.77.161.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BD20A14E44 for ; Fri, 22 Oct 1999 17:40:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Usselmann.M@icg-online.de) Received: (qmail 5583 invoked from network); 23 Oct 1999 00:40:36 -0000 Received: from pc19f038b.dip.t-dialin.net (HELO icg?pc204) (193.159.3.139) by smtp.www-service.de with SMTP; 23 Oct 1999 00:40:36 -0000 From: "Manfred Usselmann" To: "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" , "Ian J Greely" Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1999 02:39:25 +0100 Reply-To: "Manfred Usselmann" X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Standard (2.10.1999) For Windows NT (4.0.1381;5) In-Reply-To: <001001bf1ce6$d3b259c0$020afea9@ciara> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: WYSIWYG word processor needed Message-Id: <19991023004039.BD20A14E44@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yes, check for yourself. But as far as I can see it is really free for use within your own organisation. The restriction is, you have no right to distribute it. Except as educational institution, then you can distribute within the institution to faculty, staff and currently enrolled students, but only without charging the distribution. From http://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/index.html: "The .com office business model: Free for personal and commercial use; pay only for services and support. " From http://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html "StarOffice 5.1 is FREE* software! * Customer pays media, shipping, and handling charges. " "Internal-Only Use You may freely install StarOffice on multiple computers within your own INTERNAL organization (or school.) " Manfred On Sat, 23 Oct 1999 00:40:29 +0100, Ian J Greely wrote: >Umm, > >I don't fully recall the licence agreement. *smile* Anyone using it for >commercial reasons should >read the licence. I have the feeling that there are restrictions in the >licence related to business usage >more from reading the press releases on the Sun site than reading the data >on the CD. > >regards, >Ian >-----Original Message----- >From: Manfred Usselmann >To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Cc: Ian J Greely ; J McKitrick > >Date: Friday, October 22, 1999 9:52 PM >Subject: Re: WYSIWYG word processor needed > > >>On Fri, 22 Oct 1999 11:21:12 +0100, Ian J Greely wrote: >> >>>Star Office from Sun? >>> >>>It will have to run in Linux compatability mode but now that Sun have >>>bought out the company >>>single user "home" licences are free. www.sun.com >> >>Since Sun bought StarDivision the licence is free for _commercial_ use too! >> >> >>-- >>Manfred Usselmann >>usselmann.m@icg-online.de >>-------------------------------------------------- >>I C G Informationstechnologie Consulting GmbH >>Bahnstr. 7, D-65835 Liederbach / Ts. >>Tel. +49 69 333 623, Fax +49 69 306 845 >>-------------------------------------------------- >>http://www.icg-online.de >>-------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> > > -- Manfred Usselmann usselmann.m@icg-online.de -------------------------------------------------- I C G Informationstechnologie Consulting GmbH Bahnstr. 7, D-65835 Liederbach / Ts. Tel. +49 69 333 623, Fax +49 69 306 845 -------------------------------------------------- http://www.icg-online.de -------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message