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Re: MS prohibits licensees using open source as development tools?



On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 02:56:36PM +0300, guy keren wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Omer Zak wrote:
> 
> > The situation was blown up, due to Microsoft's own FUD tactics.They
> > claim that GPL is more "infectious" than it really is.They claim that if
> > you edit and compile code using GPLed tools, your code must, too, be
> > GPLed.This is untrue.
> 
> more then this - they put 'GPL' and 'LGPL' in the same basket - there is
> no legal problem in binding code that uses microsoft's code together with
> LGPL-ed libraries.

And the GPL has a special section EXPLICITLY disclaiming any copyright of
the original software's copyright holders over its produced output.

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