On Thu, 2011-06-16 at 16:51 +0200, Frederic Bor wrote: > Hello, > > > IÂm currently implementing transparent proxying for tor with Layered Service > Provider feature on windows. Microsoft provides a sample to demonstrate how > to implement an empty LSP (this is a lot of work, even to do nothing). This > sample is distributed under the license attached in this email. I have been > advised on #tor-dev to ask here about its compatibility with 3-clause BSD. > > It seems compatible to me but the following restriction may be a problem in > an open source context: > > "You may not [...] modify or distribute the source code of any Distributable > Code so that any part of it becomes subject to an Excluded License. An > Excluded License is one that requires, as a condition of use, modification > or distribution, that: > - the code be disclosed or distributed in source code form, or > - others have the right to modify it." > > The wording "requires, as a condition of use, modification or distribution" > seems to allow to use the sample in tor, since there is no such requirement > in 3-clause BSD. > > Does this seem right to you? You might want to ask licensing@xxxxxxx -- that looks like a clause designed to exclude copyleft licenses, so they'd probably know about it and what effects it would have on non-copyleft licenses.
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