Re: [libreoffice-marketing] MediaFire.com and Apache OO

On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Italo Vignoli <italo.vignoli@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 01/12/13 17:55, Robinson Tryon wrote:
>
> > In the case of OOXML, "Microsoft published the specs for XML file
> > formats in 2003 and licensed them to competitors" may be correct, but
> > I feel like that sentence is a bit misleading for ODF or other non-MS
> > XML document formats. Perhaps just dropping the sentence altogether
> > might be preferable.
>
> The statement is not correct, by the way, because the format is not
> licensed but is free to use based on a statement provided in 2008 at the
> time of OOXML standardization.

Right -- in the case of OOXML, my understanding is that their "open
specification promise"[1] is tantamount to a (rather permissive)
license.

--R

[1] http://www.microsoft.com/openspecifications/en/us/programs/osp/default.aspx

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