> > StarOffice is probably non-free, thus no one besides the company who > > created it can legally redistribute it.
> There a few side-solutions then: > > - Debian community asks StarDiv the permission not likely to be granted; stardiv requires registration on a web page. However, FreeBSD seems to have solved some of these (netscape, for example) by downloading from the appropriate site. A debian installer that did this would need tto gather this information from the viewer, feed it to stardiv, and then do the download. > - StarDiv does it on its own this is more likely. Or prived them with a script to turn their .tgz to .deb. > - There's a script used to install StarOffice 3.0 The same could? be done > for 4.0 and 5.0 there have been a few moves towards this by different developers, but noone has actually done it. I think there's soemthign about this package that makes it harder than usual. > Now, for legal matters: Since StarOffice isn't free, we can't theorically > distribute it. But the Linux part of it is. Which takes precedence? "the Linux part"? It's a binary that links to standard source code; there is no linux code in it. It would be a civil & criminal copyright violation to distribute the binary without permission rick, esq.
