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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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RE[3]: Reasoning

by segedunum on Fri 13th Jun 2008 23:55 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: Reasoning"

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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

There are established procedures, and companies of lots of different sizes have procedures of copyright assignment and signing code off within open source projects, and they then proceed to use that code in their own shipped products.

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.

So are a lot of other software companies. You act like it's some minefield. I can assure you that lots of other companies have trod this path before the mighty Microsoft, who is oh-so worried about getting sued more than anyone else is ;-).

Well, thats what John Lam said. What do you think the reason is

Errrrrrrr, the past twenty-five years of Microsoft's behaviour over such events? We'll just pretend that RTF, DR-DOS and a list of other similar things never happened. OK? We'll let all that just wash over you.

and what qualifications do you have that make you more of an authority on this then him?

I'm not employed by Microsoft ;-).

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