[ale] Take a look at a new M$ EULA

[Leonard Thornton]

At 12:59 PM 6/21/2001 -0400, I. Herman wrote:
>Awww....how cute.  I'm sure companies that make stuff like VMware and such
>will love that.  In the way I read it... "No operating our stuff on or near
>anything that is GPL"

The relevant section (unedited)
(Quote)
    (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).
(Unquote)

I love the way they classify Open Source as "Potentially Viral Software".....

Of course I just violated the license agreement by publishing this ... :>)

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