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

[Steven D. Majewski]

On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Gerhard [iso-8859-1] Häring wrote:

> >Does anyone know if this should be taken seriously ? 
> 
> Of course not. It was posted on Slashdot.


Well, the license terms I quoted I took from Microsoft's own web. 

It was for one specific product SDK -- I have no idea if similar
terms will get included in other MS licenses. But if it does 
become a standard license clause for MS SDKs, it would seem 
to disallow using that SDK with Python or Perl. (I'm not a lawyer 
-- that's just what it seems to say in "plain English" . ) 

Of course the discussion on Slashdot was not very enlightening! ;-) 
I was hoping someone from ActiveState might know more... 

-- Steve