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




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.

--
guy

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 or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy


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