Re: Rejection of any ENCUMBERED Microsoft Donation to POI

[Andrew C. Oliver]

Right but the result won't be open source. The patent holder is using a third party to implement its patent and will be free to require the end-users to purchase licenses. After the patent holder that is hiring a third party to implement its patent which it will then potentially require non-OSD compliant licensing on, then my objection will be removed. Why is this such a big issue? Ask them to sign the CLA-C and then all basis are covered and my -1 will no longer hold.

-Andy

Gianugo Rabellino wrote:

On Apr 1, 2008, at 4:02 PM, Andrew C. Oliver wrote:

So the article is wrong? Microsoft is NOT *paying* source sense to do this?

Unfortunately, there are only so many times I can repeat this.

Ciao,

That's not the point. The point is whose copyright is the software being developed. And it is not Microsoft's, it's Sourcesense's, who then licenses to Apache via (C)CLAs.

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