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Lew said:
David Schwartz wrote: [snip]
IIRC, Microsoft has already issued EULAs on some of it's products that forbid
the use of the products to create GPL'ed software.
Specifically, the licence for "Microsoft Mobile Internet Toolkit Beta 2"
contained a restriction that said
"(c) Open Source. Recipient's license rights to the Software are conditioned
upon Recipient (i) not distributing such Software, in whole or in part, in
conjunction with Potentially Viral Software (as defined below); and (ii) not
using Potentially Viral Software (e.g. tools) to develop Recipient software
which includes the Software, in whole or in part. For purposes of the
foregoing, "Potentially Viral Software" means software which is licensed
pursuant to terms that: (x) create, or purport to create, obligations for
Microsoft with respect to the Software or (y) grant, or purport to grant, to
any third party any rights to or immunities under Microsoft's intellectual
property or proprietary rights in the Software.
By way of example but not limitation of the foregoing, Recipient shall not
distribute the Software, in whole or in part, in conjunction with any Publicly
Available Software.
"Publicly Available Software" means each of (i) any software that contains, or
is derived in any manner (in whole or in part) from, any software that is
distributed as free software, open source software (e.g. Linux) or similar
licensing or distribution models; and (ii) any software that requires as a
condition of use, modification and/or distribution of such software that other
software distributed with such software (A) be disclosed or distributed in
source code form; (B) be licensed for the purpose of making derivative works;
or (C) be redistributable at no charge. Publicly Available Software includes,
without limitation, software licensed or distributed under any of the
following licenses or distribution models, or licenses or distribution models
similar to any of the following: (A) GNU's General Public License (GPL) or
Lesser/Library GPL (LGPL), (B) The Artistic License (e.g., PERL), (C) the
Mozilla Public License, (D) the Netscape Public License, (E) the Sun Community
Source License (SCSL), and (F) the Sun Industry Standards License (SISL)."
I assume that (for
instance) a developer porting Netfilter to MSWindows would have to check the
EULA of his MS Visual C++ installation for restrictions if he were to use
MSVC++ to recompile Netfilter for distribution.
Similarly, Microsoft (or others) might have licenced their DLLs such that they
are not legally usable with GPLed software. Are you /sure/ you read and
understood /every/ EULA for every DLL on your system?
[snip]
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Lew Pitcher
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