We had initially gone with a royalty-free license that folks could use if they wanted to build softward that used these formats. We had a lot of feedback on those, and yesterday decided to move away from the licenses and instead to provide a "covenant not to sue". This is a similar approach to what Sun did with OpenDocument.
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We had initially gone with a royalty-free license that folks could use if they wanted to build softward that used these formats. We had a lot of feedback on those, and yesterday decided to move away from the licenses and instead to provide a "covenant not to sue". This is a similar approach to what Sun did with OpenDocument.
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I have a post on my blog where I include the CNS as well as a description of what the change means. Feel free to provide feedback: http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2005/11
-Brian