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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Compatibility
From:       Boudewijn Rempt <boud () valdyas ! org>
Date:       2006-12-03 22:20:16
Message-ID: 200612032320.17083.boud () valdyas ! org
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On Sunday 03 December 2006 23:13, Benol wrote:

> If OO has it covered already, then why can't you use their code? Is it
> against LGPL? Don't get me wrong - I use KOffice as my main office suite,
> but am just curious.

The OO code is intimately coupled to their internal data represenations and 
sometimes even to their gui. It would take just as much time as it would to 
reverse engineer the file formats itself. Never underestimate the 
gruesomeness of obfuscated C++!

-- 
Boudewijn Rempt 
http://www.valdyas.org/fading/index.cgi

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