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Microsoft patent promise not GPL compatible

noooxml.org — What Microsoft intends to do with its OSP is to forbid sublicensability, which is one of the cornerstone for distributing GPL code. The OSP page on Microsoft website is pretty clear about it: "There is no need for sublicensing".

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  • Multivac1, on 12/21/2007, -0/+0I read this excellent comment on that article:
    GPL is a copyright licence. It does not transfer or sublicense patent rights anyways. Copyright on the Office Open XML specification belongs to Ecma which has the following copyrights claims: "To publish these Standards and Technical Reports in electronic and printed form; the publications can be freely copied by all interested parties without restrictions. "

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