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RE: DEPLOY: Microsoft Royalty Free Sender ID Patent License FAQ

2004-08-26 15:51:16

[Mark Shewmaker]
In the section you quoted, they grant End Users a "use" right without
any mention of a right to "make" object code.

Huh?

How do you use a source code implementation, except as to run it in
interpreted fashion or build it?

I think you're reaching. The separation of source code versus object
code sections in the license seems to be made so that one form (source)
requires a statement of IP ownership be attached, while the other
(object) does not.

Microsoft's license FAQ says basically the same thing: only when you
implement their IP do you need a license, not to use a licensed
implementation. 

I have a tentative agreement for an *independent* (niether MS nor FSF)
IP lawyer friend confirm these issues for me on a pro-bono basis. I will
let everyone know what he says, or if he tells me I'm going to have to
pay up because analyzing these four pages (the MS license in combination
with the GPL) turns out to be too much work to do for free ;-).

Regards,
        Ryan