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"Microsoft may have patents, patent applications, trademarks, copyrights, or other intellectual property rights covering subject matter in these materials. Exce
by juanpablo 19y ago
"Microsoft may have patents, patent applications, trademarks, copyrights, or other intellectual property rights covering subject matter in these materials. Except as expressly provided in the Microsoft Open Specification Promise and this notice, the furnishing of these materials does not give you any license to these patents, trademarks, copyrights, or other intellectual property."
It's better than nothing but it's still a dangerous format to use.
- DocSavage 19y agoIf you look at the Microsoft Open Specification Promise it says: "Microsoft irrevocably promises not to assert any Microsoft Necessary Claims against you for making, using, selling, offering for sale, importing or distributing any implementation to the extent it conforms to a Covered Specification (“Covered Implementation”), subject to the following..." [Doesn't cover non-MSoft patents. Not surprising.] Office Binary formats are under Covered Specifications. I wouldn't use the format, but not sure it's "dangerous" to write apps that read or generate the format.