• [^] # Re: je rêve ???

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    With thanks to Seth Johnson on the DMCA Discuss list for forwarding this earlier today:

    Subject: [Patents] MS Office 2003 XML patented
    Date: 2003年11月17日 13:48:11 +0100
    From: Carsten Svaneborg
    Organization: www.mpipks-dresden.mpg.de
    To: patents@aful.org

    Hi! Just came across the following:

    http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/ip/format/xmlpaten(...) tlicense.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.