Re: Interesting "almost open source" Microsoft tactic

Taran Rampersad <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.misc.free-software-business
Organization KnowProSE.com
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[email protected] wrote:

>On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:59:34AM -0500, La Monte H.P. Yarroll ([email protected]) wrote:
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>>Its very clear that they are attempting to be GPL compatable.
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>>The inability to sublicense just confuses me.  It isn't as if there is a 
>>license registration procedure.
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>IMNAL but I believe that this "inability to sublicense" precludes 
>this "GPL compatable".
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I concur. They might say it's 'Open Source Compatible', but it's 
definitely not GPL compatible.

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