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Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 08:57:11 -0400
From: Charles Krug <charles AT pentek DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Potentially Viral Software
Message-ID: <20010626085711.A25708@pentek.com>
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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 DOT com AT sources DOT redhat DOT com wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Jun 2001 17:08:31 -0400 
> David A Cobb <superbiskit AT home DOT com> 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


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