I've been in contact with Scott Fegette at MM on another matter regarding my DevEx tags and, having heard about this DevEx thread, he said the following (excerpt reprinted w/his permission below). Once I got over my initial reaction to seeing that contract wording this seemed more and more to be a simple misunderstanding, and thats precisely what it is turning out to be. Lets give these guys a break and let them sort it out. I'm sure we'll see something less freakifying (thats a legal term) in the not too distant future.
Personally, I'm not going to worry about it anymore. See below. >JFYI, according to our legal department, this is only in place >to protect us from frivolous lawsuits in case we work on >similar functionality within our own products to >extensions/tags/etc. on the Exchanges (which apparently has >happened in the past). We (as a rule) on the Exchange teams >do not support any modification/usage/infringement of third- >party tags and extensions on our site however - even >internally - without express (and ideally written) consent >from the authors first. > >I agree that this could be smoothed up, however- and will be >talking with our legal department to see if there's a way we >could find a better wording for that clause so developers feel >more comfortable with the process. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4