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From: Ed Avis <epa98@doc.ic.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: GPL and "free" software
Date: 1999/05/01
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Ken Arromdee wrote:

>>As part of their consent decree settlment with the DoJ a few years
>>ago, MS are not allowed to limit programs compiled with MS tools to
>>run only on Windows.  Well, not using licence agreements, anyway.
>
>They're not?  It seems to be a subject that pops up every so often on the
>comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine newsgroup.  Look for the thread "Why you could
>be a software pirate" from the end of 1997.
>
>The IE 4 license says:
>* Installation and Use. Microsoft grants you the right to install and use
>copies of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT on your computers running validly licensed
>copies of the operating system for which the SOFTWARE PRODUCT was designed
>[e.g., Windows(r) 95; Windows NT(r), Windows 3.x, Macintosh, etc.].

I think IE4 is an exception because it is gratis.

>Compilers say the same thing, although I don't have any Microsoft compilers in
>front of me to check.

Compilers?  Ouch!

Maybe it's because the consent decree only covered 'application
programs'.  I'm just guessing though.

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Ed Avis
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