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[Geoffrey Derber <Geoffrey.Derber AT Trinity.edu>]

Eric Sandall wrote:
> Jason Flatt said:
>
> > On Wednesday 18 June 2003 08:33 am, Eric Sandall wrote:
> >
> > > If you would like to have your games back (or applications from
> > > z-rejected, but why would you use non-OSS software? ;)), then you may
> > > add
> > > them just as you do the normal grimoire:
> >
> > Because KOffice and the GNOME office apps don't cut it for me.  :^)  (Why
> > is
> > OpenOffice.org in z-rejected?)
>
>
> It used to be a binary-only spell, and now it's source-based, but we
> haven't moved it over as Jose was still working on it.
> <snip>
>
> -sandalle
Um, no.  That's not the reason anymore.  One of the files that OO uses 
for comes from gpc231, the two source code files are compiled into OO. 
Those two source files have licensing issues for commercial use.  Read 
the license in gpc.c.  Unfortunately, I don't see any way around this 
issue, I tried today to see if there were alternates that were OSS that 
would work as a replacement, but I couldn't find any.

Geoff