Michael Hartle dijo:
Hmm, basically, this sounds interesting, but according to the legal notice
There is a separate patent license available to parties interested in implementing software programs that can read and write files that conform to the Specification. This patent license is available at this location: http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/ip/format/xmlpatentlicense.asp.
Before adding the Microsoft schema to the CVS and thus probably implicitly accepting the patent license, some ASF lawyer better scan this throughly...
+1
I just simply does not understand why while developers (including me) screaming for the formats descriptions of earlier implementations for years and they does not reply nothing. It was simply propetary. If you don't believe me, see POI project. They have hardtime documenting the MS formats.
Hold, the document format has been documented from quite a few time. There were public specs, and infact this was one of the major MS arguments ("hey, our file formats are public!"). Now, whether the available documentation was crap is a totally different issue. :-)
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