From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 13 13:21:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA09479 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 13:21:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from isbalham.ist.co.uk (isbalham.ist.co.uk [192.31.26.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA09471 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 13:21:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from gid.co.uk (uucp@localhost) by isbalham.ist.co.uk (8.8.4/8.8.4) with UUCP id VAA06885; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 21:15:50 GMT Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 21:09:12 GMT Received: from [194.32.164.2] by seagoon.gid.co.uk; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 21:09:12 GMT X-Sender: rb@194.32.164.1 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <199702131933.GAA01212@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au> References: from Bob Bishop at "Feb 13, 97 11:32:49 am" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: John Birrell From: Bob Bishop Subject: Re: MIME applications for FreeBSD Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, terry@lambert.org Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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