Microsoft prohibits GPLed work via licensing of CIFS standards

Sat Apr 6 15:56:05 UTC 2002

On Sáb, 2002-04-06 at 10:58, MJ Ray wrote:
> Alex Hudson <home at alexhudson.com> wrote:
> > [...] So, if they do have patents, they will either be RAND or not
> > critical for the operation of the CLR (i.e., run-time compiler
> > optimizations is a likely subject).=20
> 
> RAND is not good enough, is it?
> 
No, because RAND licenses are per copy, so you can't have the freedom to
redistribute the program. This means it can't be used on Free Software.
-- 
						João Miguel Neves
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