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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: MS office filters
From:       Harri Porten <porten () tu-harburg ! de>
Date:       1999-06-08 20:20:51
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Martin Konold wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Harri Porten wrote:
> 
> > That's the difficult part about it. I'm not sure about the legal
> > perspective (reverse engineering!).
> 
> Reverse engeneering in order to gain interoperability is definetely legal
> in Germany. (It is literally mentioned in the law)

Good to hear that. I heard that Microsoft's EULA explicitly forbids
reverse engineering (no copy available to check) but one doesn't have to
sign the EULA for analyzing files freely available on the net, of
course. The guy who wrote the LAOLA specs probably never bought a MS
program ;)

Harri.

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