On 3/21/06, Walter Landry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Second off, you've not convinced me that the GFDL never allows > > the use of word format (I'll grant that such allowance would come > > with caveats about as strong as those necessary for your > > example). > > I don't quite understand what you are saying here. Could you > enumerate those caveats?
No, there's too many potential cases for me to enumerate all potential caveats. I can give you a simple example, however, of a case where [with caveats] word format is suitable: some drawings could be saved in some word format if the version of word in question is widely available, and if there is a command line program that will convert those drawings to postscript. Another example where word format is ok to distribute involves a simple word->xml->word translation facility where both the word format and the xml format are distributed. As an aside, I seem to remember a number of programs which can deal with word format to varying degrees (three that come to mind are catdoc (GPL), mswordview (GPL/LGPL) and openoffice (PDL/LGPL), but I'm sure there are others). -- Raul
