Re: Microsoft vs. Open Source

[Jonathan Q <jq@example.com>]

Scott Stone (SStone@example.com) wrote:

> hmm.  doesn't mention the BSD license at all, I wonder if that's a loop
> hole?

The BSD license appears to meet with MS approval (judging by their 
recent public statements on licensing) because it allows you
to take the code and create a proprietary fork.  

The fact that MS would actually create an SDK license that forbids
you to even distribute your product with Free Software (under the
FSF definition) or its close relatives, or even use Free Software
tools to build it says a lot about how scared they are running
over what has been built around open source in general and the
GPL in particular.  

Jonathan