hi
I took a brief look at powershell today when I found out it had been
open sourced. I looked at some of the c# source code files and they all
read that they're licensed under the apache license, version 2.0. I
haven't read that thing, it's probably full of legalese I wouldn't
understand, but I bet it's probably lax on the patent front or microsoft
wouldn't have chosen it. So we could, theoretically, get into trouble
packaging it for arch, although I don't think it's likely. Of course I
am not a lawyer or a programmer, this is just my two scents.
Thanks
Kendell Clark
On 08/19/2016 10:47 AM, Sebastiaan Lokhorst via arch-general wrote:
2016-08-19 17:36 GMT+02:00 Jayesh Badwaik <archlinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
The point was patents.
A company can give out licenses to use a patent. If Microsoft would have
patented stuff in PowerShell, but then releases them with the following
license included:
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to
deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the
rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software ...
Then Microsoft has given you a license to use that patent under the
conditions listed above, and they cannot sue you.
Please correct me if I'm mistaken.
