Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 26th Oct 2009 19:28 UTC, submitted by poundsmack
Anyone who has ever dealt with Microsoft Outlook will know the .pst file format - it's the binary, undocumented file in which all data from Outlook is stored - emails, contacts, calendar, you name it, it's in there. Microsoft has announced that it will release detailed technical documentation on the Outlook .pst data format.
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I see what you mean. I've done a bit of reading up and from what I can find out, the argument boils down to the patent indemnification promise only applying to the original software created and no other upstream software created on the strength of the original. This would make MS's OSP incompatible with the GPL version 3, as far as I can see. Version 2 of the GPL should be fine though, as long as you don't mind leaving yourself open to a potential patent suit on the part of MS.
Obviously, for GPL version 3 software this is a problems but surely for this kind of thing BSD would be just as good?