[office] Contribution of OpenOffice.org XML file format specification

Dear all,

Please find attached the OpenOffice.org XML file format specification 
and the DTD files that Sun Microsystems, Inc. will contribute to the
Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards - 
OASIS under the following IPR statement:

Sun Microsystems, Inc. ("Sun") will offer a Royalty-Free License under 
its Essential Claims for the OpenOffice.org XML File Format 
Specification. One precondition of any such license granted to a party 
("licensee") shall be the licensee's agreement to grant reciprocal 
Royalty-Free Licenses under its Essential Claims to Sun and other 
implementers of such specification.  Sun expressly reserves all other 
rights it may have.

The definitions of "Essential Claims" and "Royalty-Free License" in 
effect for the foregoing statement are those found  in the W3C Patent 
Policy Framework dated 16 August 2001,
  located at http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-patent-policy-20010816/.

Best regards

Michael

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Michael Brauer
Technical Lead Software Engineering
Star Office Software Entwicklungs GmbH
Sachsenfeld 4                           e-mail: 
D-20097 Hamburg, Germany