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 To: "David A. Cobb" Cc: Cygwin General MailList , Xemacs General MailLIst Subject: Re: Potentially Viral Software In-Reply-To: Message from "David A. Cobb" of "Sun, 24 Jun 2001 17:08:31 EDT." <5.1.0.14.0.20010624170543.04012bf0@mail> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20010624170543.04012bf0@mail> X-face: ?^_yw@fA`CEX&}--=*&XqXbF-oePvxaT4(kyt\nwM9]{]N!>b^K}-Mb9 YH%saz^>nq5usBlD"s{(.h'_w|U^3ldUq7wVZz$`u>MB(-4$f\a6Eu8.e=Pf\ X-image-url: http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/kanga.face.tiff X-url: http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 14:29:52 -0700 Message-ID: <11468.993504592@2wire.com> From: J C Lawrence 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. -- J C Lawrence claw@kanga.nu ---------(*) http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ The pressure to survive and rhetoric may make strange bedfellows -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple