This is an interesting enough development: the SDK license agreement
for Microsoft's Mobile Internet Toolkit (Beta 2) reiterates Microsoft's
opposition to open source/Free Software (with the notable exception of
the BSD license), claiming that they'll "create, or purport to create, obligations for
Microsoft with respect to the Software or (y) grant, or purport
to grant, to any third party any rights to or immunities under
Microsoft's intellectual property or proprietary rights in the
Software. " This includes not being allowed to use open source/Free Software
development tools in conjunction with the SDK, according to this EULA.
"(c) Open Source. Recipient's license rights to
the Software are conditioned upon Recipient (i) not
distributing such Software, in whole or in part, in
conjunction with Potentially Viral Software (as defined below);
and (ii) not using Potentially Viral Software (e.g. tools) to
develop Recipient software which includes the Software, in
whole or in part. For purposes of the foregoing, "Potentially
Viral Software" means software which is licensed pursuant to
terms that: (x) create, or purport to create, obligations for
Microsoft with respect to the Software or (y) grant, or purport
to grant, to any third party any rights to or immunities under
Microsoft's intellectual property or proprietary rights in the
Software.
By way of example but not limitation of the foregoing,
Recipient shall not distribute the Software, in whole or
in part, in conjunction with any Publicly Available Software.
"Publicly Available Software" means each of (i) any software that
contains, or is derived in any manner (in whole or in part) from,
any software that is distributed as free software, open source
software (e.g. Linux) or similar licensing or distribution models;
and (ii) any software that requires as a condition of use,
modification and/or distribution of such software that other
software distributed with such software (A) be disclosed or
distributed in source code form; (B) be licensed for the purpose
of making derivative works; or (C) be redistributable at no charge.
Publicly Available Software includes, without limitation,
software licensed or distributed under any of the following
licenses or distribution models, or licenses or distribution models
similar to any of the following: (A) GNU's General Public License
(GPL) or Lesser/Library GPL (LGPL), (B) The Artistic License
(e.g., PERL), (C) the Mozilla Public License,
(D) the Netscape Public License,
(E) the Sun Community Source License (SCSL), and
(F) the Sun Industry Standards License (SISL)."
