Re: writing competing products in vc++
From: Peter van der Goes (p_vandergoes_at_toadstool.u)
Date: 11/07/04
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Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 17:56:50 -0600
"Abubakar" <Abubakar@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> on some opensource group when I tried to compile there compiler with vc++
> someone said this to me:
> "BTW, does the VS.NET license even allows one to write compilers with it?
> I remember reading the Visual C++ once and it expressly prohibited writing
> competing products (including compilers)."
>
> Is this true?
>
> Ab.
Follow-up. Prevailing opinion (from a MVP group) is that no such restriction
exists in the current license. I read the EULA and can find no explicit
statement making or referring to such a restriction. (I'm not an attorney).
My opinion: your quote comes from somebody trying to spread FUD.
-- Peter [MVP Visual Developer] Jack of all trades, master of none.
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