Re: Licencing issues
- From: Martin Sevior <msevior mccubbin ph unimelb edu au>
- To: Jon Trowbridge <trow ximian com>
- Cc: Hubert Figuiere <hfiguiere teaser fr>, gnome-office-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Licencing issues
- Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 09:05:26 +1000 (EST)
On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Jon Trowbridge wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 12:23:25AM +0200, Hubert Figuiere wrote:
> > Does anybody have read the licensing terms ?
>
> While I haven't seen their license for those docs, I don't think it is
> overly-cynical to assume that it includes conditions that would be
> incompatible with the development of a free, open, competing product.
>
The Samba experience was that it was easier to reverse engineer rather
than follow the MS published protocol. I'm not a conspiracy theorist, I
think that somebody at MS screwed up. This has been known to happen.
I suspect that about 80% of the documentation there might be accurate.
Cheers,
Martin
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