Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 18th Nov 2008 06:45 UTC, submitted by pablo_marx
Microsoft has released an initial release of version 2.0 of the Singularity operating system (research development kit, as it likes to call it). Singularity is a microkernel research operating system, where the kernel, drivers, and applications are all written in managed code. Singularity is released under a shared source academic license, and you can do whatever you want with it, except making money (simply put).
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2006-11-14
Correction: Whatever you do with your code must remain available to everyone, not just us. You would have thought people would have grokked this by now. Apparently not.
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correction: you can do whatever you want with the code as long as you use it in your private space(fair use) but if you are to redistribute ..then you must do so under the term of the license(and a license like GPL will force the distributed code to be available to everyone) ..the recipients of the code can do with it as they please as long as they,too, dont distribute it ..and the license again will come into effect the second the redistribute it ..
again free licenses takes effect at the point of redistribution ..not usage ..any license that tells you what to do at the point of usage is not free
example, google can do whatever they want with their custome linux kernel and they can make as much money as they can with is as long as it remains inhouse ..GPL will come into effect the minute they redistribute their code to anybody and they will be forced to give it out to anybody who cares to want it
You would have thought people would have grokked this by now. Apparently not.
Edited 2008-11-18 18:40 UTC