Comment Re:Licensing (Score 1) 451
We had initially gone with a royalty-free license that folks could use if they wanted to build softward that used these formats. We had a lot of feedback on those, and yesterday decided to move away from the licenses and instead to provide a "covenant not to sue". This is a similar approach to what Sun did with OpenDocument.
I have a post on my blog where I include the CNS as well as a description of what the change means. Feel free to provide feedback: http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2005/11/ 22/495876.aspx
-Brian
I have a post on my blog where I include the CNS as well as a description of what the change means. Feel free to provide feedback: http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2005/11
-Brian