So then why not read the source code, get some ideas, possibly use some of the code if it makes sense as such, and include a copy of the license and copyright notice with your redistribution to cover your legal requirements.
Of course if the project was GPL'd, which is incompatible (as far as I know) with the MSPL (as well as pretty much every BSD-like license), then the clause in the license stating that the the subsequent license MUST be compatible with the MSPL would obviously present a problem. So I guess I can now see where you are going with this. Interesting dilemma. On 6/1/07, Curt Hagenlocher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 6/1/07, M. David Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 6/1/07, Curt Hagenlocher < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > "Independent rediscovery" does not protect you from claims of patent > > infringement, only from copyright infringement. > > > > Unless I am misreading, it seems you are suggesting that the protection > comes in the form of copyright, not patent, and therefore could present a > problem. Have I misinterpreted? > Let's say, for the sake of argument, that I want to contribute source code to the "ZincPython" project. There are two ways that my work could cause legal problems: it might infringe on someone's patent, or it might be copied wholesale from someone else's work. For patent infringement, it doesn't really matter where the code came from -- I wrote it, I copied it, I channeled it from a 12,000-year-old programmer named Klaatu -- if it infringes, it infringes. In order for copyright violation to have happened, on the other hand, I have to actually have had access to the code being copied. Some projects apparently try to protect themselves from *claims* of copyright violation by asking that their donors refrain from looking at similar or related (and usually competing) source code. Now that I think about it, though, reading someone else's source code might expose me to a clever idea that (unbeknownst to me) is patented -- thereby increasing the risk that I inadvertently infringe on a patent when I independently reimplement similar functionality. I guess I'm just biased against that idea because brilliant technique so rarely seems important to me. -- Curt Hagenlocher [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@lists.ironpython.com http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com
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