On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Chirgwin, Richard wrote:
> Robert writes:
>
> >Licences like this are in fact a trap door - once you have gone through
> >them, you are effectively barred from developing open source software
> >through the danger of legal action.
>
> Robert, I'm not an expert reader of licenses - and I suspect other Linkers
> may be curious, so could you explain the danger in greater detail?
I'm not Robert and I haven't read the license, but I suspect that if you
were to view the code and go on to do Open Source development in a related
area then MS would have some grounds to accuse you of copying trade secrets
or using their source code directly.
These accusations wouldn't have to be true for the threat to be effective.
-d
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