MS Office 2003 XML patented
"Seth Johnson" <[email protected]>
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Does anybody have a copy of this page saved, or in their cache? The language in question appears to no longer be there. Seth -----Original Message----- From: Bernard Lang <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 13:42:53 +0100 Subject: Re: [Patents] MS Office 2003 XML patented do you have a coppy of that page ... it does not seem to exist any longer. Bernard On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 01:48:11PM +0100, Carsten Svaneborg wrote: > 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 patentinfringemet. > > -- > Mvh. Carsten Svaneborg > http://www.softwarepatenter.dk > > -- Non aux Brevets Logiciels - No to Software Patents SIGNEZ http://petition.eurolinux.org/ SIGN [email protected] ,_ /\o \o/ Tel +33 1 3963 5644 http://pauillac.inria.fr/~lang/ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Fax +33 1 3963 5469 INRIA / B.P. 105 / 78153 Le Chesnay CEDEX / France Je n'exprime que mon opinion - I express only my opinion CAGED BEHIND WINDOWS or FREE WITH LINUX