OT: Mobile Internet Toolkit EULA (was: IsPython really O-O?)
Guido Stepken
stepken at little-idiot.de
Mon Nov 12 17:05:48 EST 2001
Thanx lots for checking this out ! Hmmm, that means, that it is forbidden
to produce (distribute) code, consisting of (L)GPL Software and Microsoft
OpenSource. One is not allowed to mix code. BSD License + Microsoft Code,
that's OK !
Any ideas, why ?
regards, Guido Stepken
>Tim Hammerquist wrote:
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> http://msdn.microsoft.com/Downloads/eula_mit.htm
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> Some interesting excerpts:
>
> The Restriction:
> [ snip ]
> : (c) Open Source. Recipient's license rights to the Software are
> : conditioned upon Recipient
> : (i) not distributing such Software, in whole or in part, in
> : conjunction with Potentially Viral Software (as defined
> : below); and
> : (ii) not using Potentially Viral Software (e.g. tools) to
> : develop Recipient software which includes the Software,
> : in whole or in part.
> [ snip ]
>
> The Definition:
> : Recipient shall not distribute the Software, in whole or in part,
> : in conjunction with any Publicly Available Software.
> [ snip ]
> : Publicly Available Software includes, without limitation, software
> : licensed or distributed under any of the following licenses or
> : distribution models, or licenses or distribution models similar to
> : any of the following:
> : (A) GNU's General Public License (GPL) or Lesser/Library GPL (LGPL),
> : (B) The Artistic License (e.g., PERL),
> : (C) the Mozilla Public License,
> : (D) the Netscape Public License,
> : (E) the Sun Community Source License (SCSL), and
> : (F) the Sun Industry Standards License (SISL).
> [ snip ]
>
> The rest of the EULA adds more legalspeak, but it doesn't get any more
> lenient. I believe MS was trying to see how this would go over in the
> community and decided to test it with a pre-release version of software
> in case users raised too much of a fuss.
>
> Cheers!
> Tim Hammerquist
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