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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Potential copyright or intellectual property issues?
From:       Shawn Gordon <shawn-gordon () home ! com>
Date:       2001-09-18 15:17:05
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At 08:03 AM 9/18/2001, you wrote:
>Howdy,
>      We are planning to distribute KOffice 1.1 with a future version of the
>AIX Toolbox, but some of our corporate lawyers are concerned about 
>copyright and
>intellectual property issues with some of the components in KOffice,
>particularly with respect to Microsoft.
>      How can I convince the attorneys that the intellectual property issues
>are clear?
>--
>Marc Stephenson                                   IBM Server Group - 
>Austin, TX
>Internet:  marc@austin.ibm.com                          NOTES: 
>marcs@us.ibm.com
>Phone:   512-327-5670                                              T/L 
>678-3189

Hi marc,

Since all the linux distributions include it, as long as you leave the 
licenses in place and put in a notice of how to receive the source code, 
you shouldn't have an issue, but I'm not an attorney, it's their job to 
actually look at the licenses and review IBM's interest.

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