OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/24138/Microsoft_Giano_3_0_Released Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:17:34 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Sweet Microsoft Research! http://www.osnews.com/thread?453758 http://www.osnews.com/thread?453758 Although I don't have a particular fondness for MS commercial work, Research is always interesting with things like Singularity and F#. And this.

The only bummer is the wording of the license, which includes this wonderful gem in the Microsoft Research Shared Source license agreement:


11) That the patent rights, if any, granted to you in this MSR-SSLA only apply to the Software, not to any derivative works you make.


Sure, create something awesome that uses this. Just don't expect to not get hit up for a patent licensing fees, if it takes off.

Actually, thats not that bad. If you have a sane understanding of "derivative work". Which, unfortunately, is an issue even when applying the more popular GPL/LGPL licenses.

But still, thanks for releasing it. It will be fun to play with. Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Bill Shooter of Bul) Comments