en teoria això no afecta als europeus (de moment) m'equivoco? On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 16:32, Jesús Corrius wrote: > Reenvio el contingut d'aquest missatge. Crec que el tema es prou important. > > -------------- > > Hi! Just came across the following: > > http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/ip/format/xmlpatentlicense.asp > > Office 2003 XML Reference Schema Patent License > > Microsoft may have patents and/or patent applications that are necessary > for you to license in order to make, sell, or distribute software > programs that read or write files that comply with the Microsoft > specifications for the Office Schemas. > > So usage of MS Word XML files requires a patentlicense. > > : > > You are not licensed to distribute a Licensed Implementation under > license terms and conditions that prohibit the terms and conditions of > this license. > > You are not licensed to sublicense or transfer your rights. > > The licence is royalty free, but GPL §7 requires the right to sublicence > patent rights to the people who obtain a GPL program from you. > > so in other words Microsoft is using patents to prevent GPLed programs > from accessing the XML format that MS Word will be using. > > This is very good timing, and goes to show how important it is to ensure > that the software patent directive has articles that protects > interoperativity from consituting patent infringemet. -- Pere Quintana Seguí pQs [http://quintanasegui.com] bits [http://www.menorcaweb.net/perequintana/blog.html] alliberem l'oceà de bits! [http://www.gnu.org]
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