Re: MTP extensions

On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 11:10:48PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, Ace Jones wrote:
> 
> >Now that presumes you want to use the porting kit.  If you're just using
> >the list of extensions, it looks to me like you're fine.
> 
> This means we can use and extend libptp2 with no risk, as long as we don't 
> use any code from Microsofts porting kit, fair enough. 

Yep, looks like it to me.

> The Microsoft license is so restrictive that it does not allow you to 
> release your resulting code under the BSD license (which libnjb uses). It 
> must follow that license and is just as "viral" as MS claim GPL to be. You 
> can link BSD code to MS code but the result would be a least common 
> denominatore meaning MS terms apply.

Is it?  How is it incompatable with the BSD license?  BSD doesn't
require any of these things that would make it an 'Excluded License',
does it?

</Ace>



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