Re: [ox-en] Why is Microsoft Attacking the GPL?
- From: Stefan Meretz <stefan.meretz hbv.org>
- Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2001 12:47:24 +0200
Hi Graham,
Graham Seaman schrieb:
simply remarketing it as closed source, which the BSD doesn't. I'd see
the more worrying side being M$' pressure on the US government to ban
the use of the gpl for government-financed code - presumably that
would also include universities. That needs to be stopped.
100% agreed.
The next test balloon from M$ seems to be a license trick. The "Mobile
Internet Toolkit" comes with a license, that forbids the use together
with "viral software" - meaning free software under GPL, LGPL and MPL. I
read this in
http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/ebusiness/0,1518,141719,00.html
(unfortunately german).
Ciao,
Stefan
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