[odf-discuss] ODF adoption considered in Oregon

[Thomas Zander]

On Thursday 29 March 2007 00:45, marbux wrote:
> Hooray! I'm a citizen of Oregon so can influence it. But I'll point
> out that the "free of legal and technical restrictions" language rules
> out ODF too. Sun's covenant not to sue does restrict the right to use
> ODF if the developer sues Sun for patent infringement. That's a "legal
> restriction." The same defect, and others, are in the Minnesota,
> Texas, and California bills.

As there is no use of an open standard without an implementation; does that 
mean that any application that is not in the public domain also fails to meet 
their criteria?
Since a license (which stands on the copyright laws) is always a legal 
restriction and often imposes restrictions that in some manner can be called 
technical (like not being able to use GPL in proprietary code and sell that).

Just thinking out loud.
-- 
Thomas Zander
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