From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 13 17:03:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA24142 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 17:03:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from white.dogwood.com (dave@white.dogwood.com [140.174.96.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA24122 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 17:02:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dave@localhost) by white.dogwood.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA15071; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 17:02:35 -0800 (PST) From: Dave Cornejo Message-Id: <199702140102.RAA15071@white.dogwood.com> Subject: Re: MIME applications for FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <199702131933.GAA01212@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au> from John Birrell at "Feb 14, 97 06:33:00 am" To: jb@cimlogic.com.au (John Birrell) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 17:02:35 -0800 (PST) Cc: rb@gid.co.uk, jb@cimlogic.com.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, terry@lambert.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL30 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk John Birrell wrote: > Bob Bishop wrote: > > At 8:38 am -0000 13/2/97, John Birrell wrote: > > >[...] > > >We are prevented from reverse engineering by the licence for msword > > >(I guess, since other MS products have that clause). MS is unlikely > > >to publicly document Word file format. [etc] > > > > They certainly don't seem to. Maybe reverse engineering is unnecessary: > > WordPad groks Word 6 format, and the source is in among the samples on the > > MSVC4.2 CD. > > What are the licence restrictions on that source and things derived > from it? WordPad is a demo program for the "power" of MFC - so you'd have to port MFC to whatever to get it running. I think that they also supply those on the 4.2 CD (I don't have mine here so can't check) but I'd expect that all those sources are meant for reference use by licensees of VC++ only... -- Dave Cornejo - Dogwood Media, Fremont, California