From koffice-devel  Thu May 31 07:59:05 2007
From: Thomas Zander <zander () kde ! org>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 07:59:05 +0000
To: koffice-devel
Subject: Re: MS Word (.doc) file format
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On Thursday 31 May 2007 09:57:32 Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote:
> > If someone has the inclination, this certainly is a nice opportunity.
>
> What about patents and royalties? Giving away the spec to anyone is =A0
> one thing, not asking for royalties is a different animal.

Those are details to be looked into; when I get an affirmative that this=20
is useful for open source applications that implies an Ok to the above. =20
So according to the MS representative I spoke that means: "no problems=20
there".

Naturally I expect people to check these things before they commit code,=20
just to be sure.
=2D-=20
Thomas Zander

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