Debian Developers - Re: Bug#259142: ITP: rtfreader -- A portable application/ms-rtf parser

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Re: Bug#259142: ITP: rtfreader -- A portable application/ms-rtf parser

Florian Weimer

2004-07-13, 5:59 pm

* Peter De Wachter:

> This is the sample implementation included in the Microsoft RTF
> specification, available from
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/un...ls/default.aspx
>
> Version 1.8 (the current version) has a license that, if I understand it
> correctly, does not allow distribution of modified source code. Version
> 1.7 does not seem to allow distribution at all.

Oh, that's a pity. Sonia, maybe you can ask them to release it under
a free software license? If you find someone inside Microsoft to work
with on this issue, it's not entirely unlikely that you would succeed.

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