[ale] Take a look at a new M$ EULA

[Eichler, Paula J.]

How will this affect things running on Wine?  Samba?  I can forsee MS
including the "open-source" clause in other products as well ..pj

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From: Leonard Thornton [mailto:Leonard at Intelis-inc.net]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 1:40 PM
To: Fulton Green; Chris Woodruff
Cc: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] Take a look at a new M$ EULA


One other interesting point in the agreement.  You can only run your 
product on an officially approved hosting site.  Gee, I wonder how you get 
to be officially approved?


At 09:57 AM 6/21/2001 -0700, Fulton Green wrote:
>Interesting. For those that didn't want to bother with legalese, there's a
>clause that in effect prevents a prereleased mobile Internet toolkit to be
>distr'd with *anything* that M$ deems "open source" (GPL/LPGL, Artistic,
>Mozilla PL, among others, are mentioned).
>
>Nice touch in that the same paragraph also restricts the software from
being
>distro'd w/"potentially viral software". Such as IIS, I suppose? :)
>
>It doesn't surprise me, given the recent speeches out of Redmond. A
question,
>though ... reading through the legalese, this doesn't seem to exclude the
>BSD license, which allows proprietary derivatives. Also note that it wasn't
>explicitly mentioned in the "blacklist".
>
>Thoughts ... ?
>
>On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 12:45:27PM -0400, Chris Woodruff wrote:
> > http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdn-files/027/001/516/eula_mit.htm
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