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1.
You may make and give away verbatim copies of the source form of the Standard
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AND
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The following is quoted verbatim from the README file included with the Microsoft Office viewers. Please note, however, that I do not make any claim to know whether or not there are additional licensing issues:Distribution of Word Viewer
Microsoft encourages all users of Word Viewer to distribute it to friends and colleagues. You can post it to online services, put it on networks, or give it to others on disks.
The Aladdin Free Public License can be found at http://www.ghostscript.com/doc/cvs/Public.htm Basically what it says it that you do not need a special license as long as you do not to use Ghostscript technology in a commercial product. You may use Ghostscript software as a tool in your business and use output derived from running a Ghostscript interpreter, but you may not sell or redistribute the Ghostscript technology itself. In other words, you can use it with Doc2pdf, but you can not sell it.