Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 14th Dec 2006 17:57 UTC
Adobe may already own the market for electronic documents thanks to PDF, but the company knows that Microsoft has a habit of showing up late to the party and stealing the crown. In turn, Adobe is beta testing a new project it calls 'Mars', which is an answer to Microsoft's new XPS format.
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There's no need for a sublicense. The license is made directly with each user of XPS, which is why you include the notice linking users of your implementation with the XPS license.
The only provision for license withdrawl is if you either sue Microsoft over IP related to XPS or if you make some non-comformant implementation and call it XPS. Both of these apply to PDF and a lot of other format standards.
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2005-07-06
So you agree that the XPS licence is incompatible with the majority of OSI Approved Licenses?
No, I don't agree. If XPS is incompatible then so is PDF since both require similar notices.