No, that is also why Samba could not write to NTFS file systems for so long and why OpenOffice could not open Microsoft Word documents until they used xml as the storage format. Thanks
Marc Aylesworth C3I Associates AFRL/IFSE Joint Battlespace Infosphere Team 525 Brooks Rd Rome, NY 13441-4505 Tel:315.330.2422 Fax:315.330.7009 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Woodhouse Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 1:33 PM To: Hardhats Subject: [Hardhats-members] Document formats, licenses and copyrights Okay, maybe I'm opening a can of worms here, but it's not entirely clear to me that if I write an application to display or otherwise process Word documents, I can legally distribute it? I note that the GNU project carefully avoids the use of GIF images (and they even talk about it on their web site). I am aware that the compression algorithm is a special consideration here, but unless a format is explicitly "open", is it even legal to develop and distribute software that uses that format? === Gregory Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Without the requirement of mathematical aesthetics a great many discoveries would not have been made." -- Albert Einstein ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
