Moty wrote:
Release date Jun 27 2008.
See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc313153.aspx for the full spec
(553 pages !)
an excerpt from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc313153.aspx
*Patents*. Microsoft has patents that may cover your implementations of
the formats. Neither this notice nor Microsoft's delivery of the
documentation grants any licenses under those or any other Microsoft
patents. However, the formats may be covered by Microsoft's Open
Specification Promise (available here:
http://www.microsoft.com/interop/osp
<http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=114384>). If you would prefer a
written license, or if the formats are not covered by the OSP, patent
licenses are available by contacting [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Could somebody elaborate what this means ........ msft MAY have patents,
format MAY be covered under Microsoft's Open Specification Promise
(available here: http://www.microsoft.com/interop/osp
<http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=114384>).
How do developers and businesses deal with this uncertainty ?
-G
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