Subject: Re: GNOME Office and OpenOffice (fwd)
From: Dom Lachowicz (cinamod@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Oct 30 2000 - 21:26:10 CST
To the best of my knowledge, KWord does not import MSWord documents as of
yet. Their upcoming filter is "based upon ideas taken from wv." That's at
least what Caolan told me. No real code to show for it though. KOffice is
copyrighted under Gnu GPL 2.0. Their filters directory only has their
internal format and RTF. I have to source on my box to confirm all of this.
Dom
>From: Martin Sevior <msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au>
>To: Havoc Pennington <hp@redhat.com>
>CC: Larry Kollar <kollar@alltel.net>, abiword-dev@abisource.com
>Subject: Re: GNOME Office and OpenOffice (fwd)
>Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 14:07:40 +1100 (EST)
>
>
>
>On 29 Oct 2000, Havoc Pennington wrote:
>
> >
> > Martin Sevior <msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au> writes:
> > > Frankly I think Koffice is better place to steal code for Abi than
> > > StarOffice. At least I know which part if the Word Processor. Of
>course
> > > Kword is only useful to people with KDE 2.0 installed. Our potential
> > > market is 100 times bigger :-)
> > >
> >
> > Be careful with licenses; I think KOffice is Artistic not GPL?
> > Anyway, just be sure you check the license, and keep the original
> > author's name on the thing. We've had a few flamefests from this sort
> > of issue...
>
>We would certainly leave a previous GPL copyright in place. I don't know
>what the Artistic License is or allows (excpet that Perl uses it.) I do
>know that the KWord MS Word importer is based on the fanatisic GPL'd wv
>program written by Coalan McNamarra (who now works for Sun in Star
>division). wv is now maintained by Dom. So this is all intertwined...
>
>Given that they've incorporated GPL'd code into Kword I thought that Kword
>was GPL'd too.
>
>Cheers
>
>Martin
>
>
>
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