[OT] MS EULA -- (will ActiveState become outlaws? ;-)

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Pierre Fortin wrote:
> 
> Roeland Rengelink wrote:
> >
> > "Steven D. Majewski" wrote:
> > >
> > > Is this the next stage of Microsoft's war against Open Source ?
> > >
> > > Discussion of this on SlashDot :
> > > <http://slashdot.org/articles/01/06/21/1810258.shtml>
> > > ( Right before the article on the Monty Python Action Figures! )
> > >
> > > If this spreads to all of Microsoft's EULA's, will this make
> > > ActiveState illegal ? 

Oh, I guess they could even rule out using GPLed (or any other
license type) programs on their OSes... it's all a matter
of the EULA they put on their software.

Seriously, I think this is FUD -- somebody at MS probably didn't get
the meaning of the GPL right and now thinks that by having
someone redistribute their SDK together with an e.g. GPLed
program *they* might be confronted with having to release the
complete source code of their SDKs.

> > > They don't specifically mention Python's
> > > license, but they do mention Perl's ( and the "similar to any
> > > of the following" clause would seem to include Python's. )
> > >
> > > Does anyone know if this should be taken seriously ?
> > >
> > > -- Steve Majewski
> > >
> > > <http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdn-files/027/001/516/eula_mit.htm>
> >
> > Ironically, NS under Linux refuses to display that ;)
> 
> This page was visible with NS4.77/Linux yesterday; now, it stalls for a few
> seconds, then presents a "page not found" screen...  either they are shutting
> out NS and/or Linux, or they've removed it...

Same on Windows... plus the server often repsonds with "Server
overloaded" -- the /.-effect. You can find the wording of the
"Open Source" clause on slashdot.org though.

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