Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 13th Jun 2008 18:09 UTC, submitted by wakeupneo
"It's official: Microsoft will not accept any external code contributions to its planned Dynamic Language Runtime, which will run Microsoft's new scripting languages for the web and Silverlight content on .NET. Microsoft will, though, continue to accept source-code contributions to its slowly emerging implementation of Ruby for .NET, IronRuby. Contributions are helping to build IronRuby and shepherd the language towards the first-full release. The Register has learned, meanwhile, that Microsoft will start accepting external contributions to its other great scripting language project, putting Python on .NET - IronPython - in the "near future". The promise by Microsoft IronRuby lead John Lam comes nearly a year after the topic was first raised. The reason Microsoft decided to leave the DLR closed, despite taking contributions to the languages that will run inside it, is to protect itself from unwanted licenses and IP claims."
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Strange. No one else has this problem. That's what open source development is all about, and there are lots of established procedures for this sort of thing.
There are no established procedures, there are common practices. Some projects just dont pay attention at all to it, others require an eula style disclaimer, others actually require your signature on a contract saying you actually own the code and are allowed to contribute it.
As I said before, microsoft is in the unique position of being the largest target of litigation in the industry, it is not that difficult to understand their position on this when you think about it.
Well, thats what John Lam said. What do you think the reason is, and what qualifications do you have that make you more of an authority on this then him?