Re: Interesting "almost open source" Microsoft tactic
"La Monte H.P. Yarroll" <[email protected]>
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Benjamin J. Tilly wrote: >[email protected] wrote: > > >>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. >>> >>> I just reread my own comment. What a typo! It is very clear that they are attempting to be GPL INcompatable. >>>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". >> >> > >IANAL either, but Eben Moglen is. > >http://www.newsforge.com/software/04/02/26/1448253.shtml shows his >response both after seeing a small part of the license out of context >and then after seeing the full license. > >He doesn't offer a definitive answer, but he indicates that it >probably is GPL incompatible. > >Cheers, >Ben > > > -- Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell's sig