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

Brian Crowell brian@fluggo.com
Sat, 6 Apr 2002 17:09:07 -0600


> You have this all wrong Robert. If you go to
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/d
nkerb/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.

Er... no. The license deals with both the copyright on the CIFS manual
(section 3.1 of the license) and the CIFS patents (section 3.2 of the
license).


> Not allowing
> CIFS to interoperate with other pieces of software which wish to do so is
> illegal under the DMCA.

I'm not familiar with the DCMA, but this sounds very interesting. Could you
point me to the section containing the provision you mentioned?

--Brian

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