ASF spec licensing issues

[Shane Wright]

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Hi

> IANAL, but in entirety just means you have to support all parts of the spec
> (not crash on valid files, or interpret them in a nonintended way). Since
> you are just displaying the most important informations about the file, you
> do support the entire spec. for your application of it.

Interesting - I hadn't thought of it like that.

> OTOH. However we might circumvent the license, there is no doubt that
> Microsoft intended to make stuff like this as hard as legally possible.
> (stuff like this = anything that works on non-MS platforms)

This is true, I also seem to remember a story on slashdot a month or two ago 
about many of the EULAs changing to specifically disallow use with GPL 
software.  Most unfair..

Interestingly, even the latest version of the RTF spec has no such limitations 
- - in fact it has no limitations at all...

Cheers

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Shane
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