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

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They don't mention the BSD license because then you wouldn't be able to
use it with win2000, which has BSD code in it. :-)
Ed.

Leonard Thornton wrote:
> 
> One other interesting point in the agreement.  You can only run your
> product on an officially approved hosting site.  Gee, I wonder how you get
> to be officially approved?
> 
> At 09:57 AM 6/21/2001 -0700, Fulton Green wrote:
> >Interesting. For those that didn't want to bother with legalese, there's a
> >clause that in effect prevents a prereleased mobile Internet toolkit to be
> >distr'd with *anything* that M$ deems "open source" (GPL/LPGL, Artistic,
> >Mozilla PL, among others, are mentioned).
> >
> >Nice touch in that the same paragraph also restricts the software from being
> >distro'd w/"potentially viral software". Such as IIS, I suppose? :)
> >
> >It doesn't surprise me, given the recent speeches out of Redmond. A question,
> >though ... reading through the legalese, this doesn't seem to exclude the
> >BSD license, which allows proprietary derivatives. Also note that it wasn't
> >explicitly mentioned in the "blacklist".
> >
> >Thoughts ... ?
> >
> >On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 12:45:27PM -0400, Chris Woodruff wrote:
> > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdn-files/027/001/516/eula_mit.htm
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> The difficult while you wait.....the impossible overnight.
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