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.
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