A Microsoft Works import filter has been developed, and will likely be
added to a future release of OpenOffice.
For everyone's reference, adding a .wps file filter was tracked under
issue 8938. http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=8938
C.
... so there was made progress regarding this? ->
Regarding the legal aspects... I haven't heard or seen anything yet
beyond what is reported in the issue on Issuezilla. The lawyers are
slow... but there are a lot of things to check on. The last message on
this (that is included here) was sent only a couple weeks ago. Lawyers
never work that quickly :-)
C.
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 19:09:06 +0200
From: Mathias Bauer
Subject: Re: [users] microsoft works
Manfred J. Krause wrote:
Brian Barker wrote:
At 13:46 10/05/2007 -0700, Stephen Borntrager wrote:
I have Openoffice 2.2 will this open works programs with file
extension .wps?
or do I have to buy microsoft works i dont want to.
As others have already said, OpenOffice will not read Microsoft
Works files. But no: you do not have to buy Works, as there are two
solutions.
[...]
see also ->
Issue #8938
import/export filters for Microsoft Works (.wdb, .wps and .wks)
Status: RESOLVED
Resolution: FIXED
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=8938
That was the coding part.
What still is missing is the legal part. This new filter uses an
external libary called libwps. We still have to clarify whether OOo
can use this library as it is provided. So now we're in the hand of
the lawyers...
Ciao,
Mathias
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