Law
commentary on the Law
Friday, April 05, 2002
Microsoft prohibits GPLed work via licensing of CIFS standards: "In its continuous battle against the GPL, Microsoft is trying a new
tactic, a combination of patent claims and licensing of technical
standards. In the "Royalty-Free CIFS
Technical Reference License Agreement", Microsoft defines the GNU
GPL as an "IPR Impairing License" and requires companies not to
distribute their implementations of the CIFS specification "in any
manner that would subject such Company Implementation to the terms of
an IPR Impairing License." This attack is clearly aimed at the
successful GPLed CIFS implementation, Samba." [Advogato]
Intriguing, Captain.