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A Slightly-Softer Microsoft Shared Source License

Posted by timothy on Tuesday March 18, 2003 @05:36PM from the just-initial-here-and-here-and-here-and-here dept.

RadBlock writes "Microsoft Watch has a story on a recent change in Microsoft's shared-source licensing... I guess the main difference is that programmers do not have to send back any changes made to the source code. But they can't combine any of the Microsoft code with other software. Here's the full text of their new license agreement." The article claims that Microsoft is "inching closer -- at least in spirit -- to the GNU GPL" with these license tweaks, but it doesn't look that way to me.

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Re:Absolutely one step closer! by The+Bungi · 2003-03-19 05:31 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Soooo, let me see if I get this right - your argument is basically that the GPL is not viral so long as I don't use GPL code the way it's supposed to be used? "Acceptance is voluntary", much like acceptance of a Microsoft EULA is, and much like I don't have to stick a pencil in my eye if I don't want to, but if I do then I should be prepared to face the consecuences?
Wow, that blows my mind.