Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 08:57:11 -0400 From: Charles Krug To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Potentially Viral Software Message-ID: <20010626085711.A25708@pentek.com> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20010624170543.04012bf0@mail> <11468.993504592@2wire.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <11468.993504592@2wire.com>; from cygwin-return-31659-charles=pentek.com@sources.redhat.com on Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 02:29:52PM -0700 On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 02:29:52PM -0700, cygwin-return-31659-charles=pentek.com@sources.redhat.com wrote: > On Sun, 24 Jun 2001 17:08:31 -0400 > David A Cobb wrote: > > > I hadn't heard of such a category until I read the recent M$ EULA. > > However we should all loudly proclaim: > > > DO NOT BUY OR USE POTENTIALLY VIRAL SOFTWARE. POTENTIALLY VIRAL > > SOFTWARE IS ANY PRODUCT THE SOURCE FOR WHICH IS _NOT_ AVAILABLE > > FOR PUBLIC INSPECTION BY THE COMMUNITY OF PRACTITIONERS OF THE > > TRADE. > > The MS Dev beta license is unenforceable in the same way that "you > may not reverse engineer this" licenses are. Unfortunately this > will mean a few would be contributors who didn't think about it are > scared off. > Also means that a GPL'd version will out sooner rather than later. -- Charles Krug, Jr. Systems Engineer Pentek Corp 1 Park Way Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/