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Subject: Re: OASIS to accept patents
From: Martin Konold <martin.konold () erfrakon ! de>
Date: 2005-02-24 13:05:09
Message-ID: 200502241405.12060.martin.konold () erfrakon ! de
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Am Donnerstag, 24. Februar 2005 11:36 schrieb David Faure:
> Please read the attached mail.
> However, the OpenDocument specification clearly does not
> have this problem, because the committee ground rules
> require a royalty-free license. This is clearly stated at:
> http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/office/ipr.php
> Thus, OpenDocument is NOT affected by this appeal
> to OASIS to change its policies; anyone working on OpenDocument
> is NOT in conflict with this appeal.
This is utter nonesense as royality free is simply not enough to be GPL
compatible.
BTW: it refers to W3C Working Draft 16 August 2001 using RF and RAND while the
uptodate W3C policy is from 5 February 2004 which changed significantly.
Regards,
-- martin
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