Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 21:09:12 GMT From: Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk> To: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, terry@lambert.org Subject: Re: MIME applications for FreeBSD Message-ID: <l03020907af2932974c2a@[194.32.164.2]> In-Reply-To: <199702131933.GAA01212@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au> References: <l03020903af28aac879f3@[194.32.164.2]> from Bob Bishop at "Feb 13, 97 11:32:49 am"
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At 7:32 pm -0000 13/2/97, John Birrell wrote: >Bob Bishop wrote: >> At 8:38 am -0000 13/2/97, John Birrell wrote: >> >[...] >> >We are prevented from reverse engineering by the licence for msword >> >(I guess, since other MS products have that clause). MS is unlikely >> >to publicly document Word file format. [etc] >> >> They certainly don't seem to. Maybe reverse engineering is unnecessary: >> WordPad groks Word 6 format, and the source is in among the samples on the >> MSVC4.2 CD. > >What are the licence restrictions on that source... Can't distribute > ...and things derived from it? Can redistribute objects derived from (possibly modified) sample code and MFC source. -- Bob Bishop (0118) 977 4017 international code +44 118 rb@gid.co.uk fax (0118) 989 4254 between 0800 and 1800 UK
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