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Re: MS prohibits licensees using open source as development tools?
- To: Oleg Goldshmidt <ogoldshmidt(at-nospam)computer.org>
- Subject: Re: MS prohibits licensees using open source as development tools?
- From: Matan Ziv-Av <matan(at-nospam)svgalib.org>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 18:24:32 +0300 (IDT)
- cc: linux-il(at-nospam)linux.org.il
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- In-Reply-To: <m3ithj8jd6.fsf@erwin.comgates.co.il>
- Reply-To: Matan Ziv-Av <matan(at-nospam)svgalib.org>
- Sender: linux-il-bounce(at-nospam)cs.huji.ac.il
On 26 Jun 2001, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
>
> At the risk to be close to off-topic, here's a tidbit:
>
> In the SV.com's roundtable (check /.) Bruce Perens asks
> about the newest MS EULA,
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/eula_mit.htm
>
> (Linux is specifically mentioned there, so I *am* on topic :)
>
> While I can see that M$ can be worried about someone distributing
> a product that contains both M$ code and GPLed code (there seems to
> be a licensing conflict in this case indeed), they seem to tell
> developers, "You want to use our products - you are prohibited to
> use open source even as development tools, whether or not you
> include them in your product." Can anyone knowledgeable comment on
> this? I am not even familiar with the M$ product in question,
>
> Microsoft Mobile Internet Toolkit Beta 2.
Do we care about this? Does this have anything to do with linux?
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Matan Ziv-Av. matan@svgalib.org
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