Re: Question about licensing

[Bruce Perens <bruce@va.debian.org>]

From: Brian Ristuccia <brianr@osiris.978.org>
> What about folks developing Microsoft Windows apps with djgpp or cygwin32?

Microsoft's application license explicitly prohibits you from running their
applications on a non-Microsoft operating system.

If they wanted to prohibit certain classes of applications from being run on
their operating system, they might run afoul of anti-monopoly provisions of
U.S. law, but not  copyright or contract law. The only reason people can run
djgpp and cygwin32 applications on top of MS windows is because MS allows it.

	Thanks


	Bruce