WinHugs beta

[Ross Paterson]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 11:42:15AM +0100, Neil Mitchell wrote:
> It has similar and different clauses. From what I can tell, as long as
> we distribute them only to run on Windows (i.e. not intentionally Wine
> compliant) then we're ok. Of course, I could be completely wrong, its
> a massive pile of confusing legalise. (and the license is also
> copyrighted, so I can't even show you a copy!)

Since I can't see the VS licence, I'll have to stick with the VS Toolkit
licence.  Windows-only distribution covers 3.1(ii), but it's 3.1(iii)
that requires the click-wrap licence.

> I don't know of any other open source project that even thinks of
> displaying a microsoft license in front of their open source project,
> so I'd be tempted just to ignore this happily.

I don't think that matters, but I believe the Python people have worried
about it.  The inclusion of MS-licensed code means the package is no longer
wholloy open source.