Microsoft and GPL?

[Andrew Dalke]

Sam Schulenburg wrote:
>I recently had an interview with a prospective employer,  who stated that
>their product used windows NT, and their license agreement with Microsoft
>prohibited the inclusion of GPL licensed software being shipped with their
>product. My question is Python included in that or not?

Python is not GPL'ed, but I think you would need to know the
details of your propspective employer's contract - likely with
the consultation of a laywer.

However, Microsoft has shipped products which for a while were
based at least partially on Python (see Greg Stein's talk at the
6th Python conference) so I can't see how there would be a problem.

                    Andrew
                    dalke at acm.org