[kplato] Re: using PMXML as standard format for KPlato...(?)
Claus Agerskov
ca at chbs.dk
Fri Oct 29 01:22:24 CEST 2004
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> To avoid a possible misunderstanding: what I mean is that if a format is
> becoming the native format of a KOffice application we must be more careful
> about the license of the file format than if we only want to make a filter.
>
> (A filter can always be dropped when it is getting too hot but it is difficult
> when it is the main file format. (For example see the (now expiring) LZW
> patent, in GIF, TIFF and what consequences it had.))
Even if the format is a selfcreated format you should still worry about
patent issues. Even though a format is open and free like the OASIS
formats then they still can have patent issues.
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