Hi,

> Imagine spending months building a large Web application, then 
> getting served a subpoena because the license for one of the 
> components doesn't let it be installed with other parts of the 
> application. That would happen if you used Perl or most other open 
> source software in a Web application with Microsoft's Mobile Internet 
> Toolkit. In its license for the Mobile Internet Toolkit, Microsoft 
> forbids developers to use open source software in conjunction with 
> Toolkit.

Such limitations of the MS licence are unvalid. Maybe good enough for a
story but not good enough for subpoena.

H.

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