Which license to use for MFC based software?

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Rod Dixon, J.D., LL.M. (rdixon at cyberspaces.org):

> This is probably true. But, the legal basis for the GPL's control over
> re-distribution or subsequent distribution is that the underlying work
> is either a derivative of the original or the original itself. What is
> Microsoft's legal basis? Are they claiming that all works created with
> their visual programming tools are derivative works of the tool?
> derivative works of the visual programming language? Or, something
> else? 

At the risk of repeating myself, I believe I saw (in the quoted EULA
text) two classes of prohibitions:

1.  You are prohibited from using the Microsoft toolchain as a whole
(e.g., the compiler) to process codebases you or others create that are
under copyleft terms.  The claimed basis for this prohibition is
contract obligations that you allegedly assume as a developer who
purchases (e.g.) Microsoft Visual Studio.NET 2003.

2.  You are prohibited from distributing components of the toolkit
(e.g., runtime libraries) to be used with copylefted codebases.  The
claimed basis for this prohibition is Microsoft Corporation's copyright
title to the referenced components.

To further reiterate:  The above understanding is merely what I infer
from others' comments and excerpts -- and exhausts my interest in
Microsoft Corporation's current proprietary-licensing follies.  (I have
not purchased any such tools; it is vastly unlikely that I would do so.)

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