The linked article said that GMU was sued for violating its license agreement with EndNote. So, this isn't the same question as whether or not a third party ap

The linked article said that GMU was sued for violating its license agreement with EndNote. So, this isn't the same question as whether or not a third party app may read/write MSOffice file formats. If an organization signs a license agreement stating that all users of data aggregated by Product A must access that data via a licensed copy of that product but instead issues some of its employees Product B which reads Product A's data, isn't that a legitimate license violation? I probably wouldn't enter into such an agreement as a customer, but one could conceivably do so. We don't actually know from the article what the case was about or what the judges ruled upon.