[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