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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Emf libray
From:       cricketc () gmail ! com
Date:       2009-10-30 20:58:45
Message-ID: 200910301658.45451.cricketc () gmail ! com
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On Tuesday 27 October 2009 09:16:51 Thomas Zander wrote:
> On Tuesday 27. October 2009 13.26.28 ext Inge Wallin wrote:
> > > There is one more pressing point that I'd like to bring up; we keep wv2
> > > outside of KOffice tarballs because the software freedom lawcenter put
> > > out an advisory on the license under which the file formats can be
> > > used. The EMF file format is licensed under the same license, so the
> > > decision made a long time ago should apply to this new code too, I
> > > don't see any reason why it should not apply, do you?
> >
> > This is a tricky issue.  I looked into it and found this page:
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Open_Specification_Promise
> 
> []
> 
> > I read that as two highly knowledgeable persons giving their lawyer(!)
> > opinion that it's ok.
> 
> You spent some time researching and quoted your sources and gave compelling
> arguments. Awesome :)
> 
> I think this addresses my worries just fine, so no objections from me.

Does this mean we're OK with moving wv2 into koffice svn, or do people still 
have objections?

-Benjamin
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