Waldemar Horwat wrote:
> Ah, but what about this?
>
> http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6352301.html
>
> http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6527632.html
>
> If you use certain Microsoft development tools, you apparently are now
> not allowed to use or develop Mozilla Public License software?!
Microsoft is now including these conditions even on the redistributables
that come with the Win32 SDK. Check out
http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsdk/sdkupdate/ComponentEULA.htm
. The agreement you need to agree to before you can install anything
includes a provision that you do not include Microsoft redistributables
like the common control DLL if your product makes use of anything that
uses the GNU, Mozilla, Netscape, Apache, Sun or Artistic licenses open
source licenses.
At least, that's what it seems to say. I would be interested in hearing
some legal opinions on whether this is actually enforcable, since it
seems to be assuming that some of these licenses e.g. the Apache license
might require that other code included as part of a larger work would
have to be made public, when in fact this isn't the case. (The GPL does
require this, but other licenses in this list are clearly not this
restrictive.
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