Microsoft prohibits GPLed work via licensing of CIFS standards

M E Leypold @ labnet leypold at informatik.uni-tuebingen.de
Sat Apr 6 09:59:15 UTC 2002


MJ Ray writes:
 > Alexandre Dulaunoy <adulau-conos at conostix.com> wrote:
 > > Microsoft prohibits GPLed work via licensing of CIFS standards
 > 
 > Can someone tell me whether we should expect this tactic against any Free
 > Software .net implementations?  Thanks, MJR.

Expect the worst. I'm no Mikrosoftie, but the direction of that
licensing clauses is clear to me. If it works, there will be more of
that kind.

Regards -- Markus




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