Subject: Re: GNOME Office and OpenOffice (fwd)
From: sam th (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Mon Oct 30 2000 - 23:13:25 CST
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On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Martin Sevior wrote:
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> On 29 Oct 2000, Havoc Pennington wrote:
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> > Martin Sevior <msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au> writes:
> > > Frankly I think Koffice is better place to steal code for Abi than
> > > StarOffice. At least I know which part if the Word Processor. Of course
> > > Kword is only useful to people with KDE 2.0 installed. Our potential
> > > market is 100 times bigger :-)
> > >
> >
> > Be careful with licenses; I think KOffice is Artistic not GPL?
> > Anyway, just be sure you check the license, and keep the original
> > author's name on the thing. We've had a few flamefests from this sort
> > of issue...
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> We would certainly leave a previous GPL copyright in place. I don't know
> what the Artistic License is or allows (excpet that Perl uses it.) I do
> know that the KWord MS Word importer is based on the fanatisic GPL'd wv
> program written by Coalan McNamarra (who now works for Sun in Star
> division). wv is now maintained by Dom. So this is all intertwined...
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> Given that they've incorporated GPL'd code into Kword I thought that Kword
> was GPL'd too.
Kword (at least much of it) is under the GPL/LGPL. The copying file of
Koffice is just the GPL.
sam th
sam@uchicago.edu
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