Re: Interesting, MS has decided that perl is "viral"?

[Steven Lembark]

- Brent Michalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 07/03/01 05:57:53 -0500:

> http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/zd/20010702/tc/ms_attacks_open_source_1.html

Language included in a license that labels open source code as "potentially viral" 
marked a stepped-up attack by the software giant.
The license for Microsoft's Mobile Internet Toolkit, which is in its second beta 
release to developers, says that it may not be
used with any software under the Free Software Foundation's General Public License 
(GPL) and six other forms of "potentially viral
software." That language refers to open source code's freely available and shared code 
licensing agreements. The wording of the
license cites the Linux OS and the Perl scripting language as examples.