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Re: GPL, yet again. (The kernel is a lot like a shared library)



On 9/15/05, Humberto Massa Guimarães <humberto.massa@almg.gov.br> wrote:
[...]
> > The license on visual studio doesn't really matter here.  What
> > matters is the license on the SDK (which has fairly generous terms
> > for stuff you write yourself).

It follows that if sell a Windows program that you've made without 
Microsoft SDK which has "generous terms" (what are they, BTW?)...

> 
> Do you sincerely think MS would have such generosity? Those terms
> are there because the army of in-house-lawyers knew that other, more
> restrictive terms would be unenforceable.

.. you may end up in jail for distributing unauthorized derivatives. 

That's how freedom works in the GNU Republic.

regards,
alexander.



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