For Approval: Microsoft Permissive License

Chris Zumbrunn chris at czv.com
Thu Oct 4 07:42:01 UTC 2007


On Oct 3, 2007, at 22:12 , Russ Nelson wrote:

> Philippe Verdy writes:
>> A trademark you don't own can't be safely used for advertising  
>> another
>> competing product in every country.
>
> Truthful use of a trademark is in line with every sane trademark law.
> My advice: don't advertise your product in insane countries.  Life is
> too short to put up with bullshit.

Putting a "Microsoft Public Licensed" sticker on the boxed version of  
your open-source software would probably be pushing the envelope in  
every country. Then again, that's exactly what Microsoft is getting  
themselves into here, but that's fine with me.

Chris






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