[Mono-list] Re: Mono-list digest, Vol 1 #284 - 23 msgs

[Jason Keirstead]

You have this all wrong Robert. If you go to 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnkerb/html/Finalcifs_LicenseAgrmnt_032802.asp, 
which is the MSDN announcement the article draws from, and read it, you will 
see that this referrs ot the CIFS TECH MANUAL, not CIFS itself. Not allowing 
CIFS to interoperate with other pieces of software which wish to do so is 
illegal under the DMCA.


In any case, I fail to see how this applies to the Mono project at all, since 
Microsoft released the API specs for .Net to the ECMA, and all Mono is doing 
is implimenting a publicly available ECMA API spec. Microsoft has no patents 
or copyright on the API spec, and I do not believe they even legally could.


Jason