Re: Interesting "almost open source" Microsoft tactic

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On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:59:34AM -0500, La Monte H.P. Yarroll ([email protected]) wrote:
> Its very clear that they are attempting to be GPL compatable.
> 
> The inability to sublicense just confuses me.  It isn't as if there is a 
> license registration procedure.
 
IMNAL but I believe that this "inability to sublicense" precludes 
this "GPL compatable".
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>  Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell's sig

hum... an odd sig.  It certainly defeats Rusty's intent that folks 
stop quoting him in their sigs.
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