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  • From: Rafe Colburn <rafeco AT rc3.org>
  • To: InterNetWorkers <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Tightening the M$ screws....
  • Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 11:08:42 -0400


On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 10:45:39AM -0400, Steven Champeon wrote:
> on Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 04:26:54PM -0400, B wrote:
> > Bill & Co., drawing lines in the sand....
> >
> > [...]
> > > In a preliminary license for its wireless Internet tools, the
> > > software giant appears to be floating a trial balloon by
> > > explicitly banning the use of open source code.
> > > Microsoft's language, which could become part of its
> > > commercial licensing terms, specifically bans use of the
> > > Linux open source operating system (OS), which
> > > Microsoft seems to find especially objectionable.
> > [...]
> >
> > http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2781638,00.html
>
> Does anyone have a URL for the license itself? The ZD article is
> useless, as always.

You can read it at:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/default.asp?url=/downloads/eula_mit.htm

The interesting paragraph is:

(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. For purposes of the foregoing, “Potentially
Viral Software” means software which is licensed pursuant to terms
that: (x) create, or purport to create, obligations for Microsoft
with respect to the Software or (y) grant, or purport to grant,
to any third party any rights to or immunities under Microsoft’s
intellectual property or proprietary rights in the Software. By
way of example but not limitation of the foregoing, Recipient shall
not distribute the Software, in whole or in part, in conjunction
with any Publicly Available Software. “Publicly Available Software”
means each of (i) any software that contains, or is derived in any
manner (in whole or in part) from, any software that is distributed
as free software, open source software (e.g. Linux) or similar
licensing or distribution models; and (ii) any software that requires
as a condition of use, modification and/or distribution of such
software that other software distributed with such software (A) be
disclosed or distributed in source code form; (B) be licensed for the
purpose of making derivative works; or (C) be redistributable at no
charge. 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).

There are some munged special characters in there, but what can you
do?

--Rafe

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