On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 2:53 PM, John Culleton<john at wexfordpress.com> wrote: > a Canadian company, i4i, has a patent on some uses of XML and has > successfully sued Microsoft in a Texas court. I don't know the > technical details, but could this court case possibly affect Scribus?
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20090817235436439 Quote from the above: "i4i said it has looked at OpenOffice and found it doesn?t infringe on its patents." - so one large obvious FLOSS target is safe. I'm not a lawyer, and I'm a mediocre coder at best, but given how broad the scope of XML is, if OOo doesn't have anything to worry about with this latest round of software patent stupidity, nobody else should worry about it either. Brian
