[FYI] Eben Moglen on Microsoft's Caller ID Patent License
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Eben Moglen on Microsoft's Caller ID Patent License
Thursday February 26, 2004 - [ 02:47 PM GMT ] Printer-friendly
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Topics: Security , Free Software , Software
By: Joe Barr
Eben Moglen -- professor of law at Columbia Law School and General
Counsel for the Free Software Foundation -- said this morning that
Microsoft's new spam-thwarting plan, dubbed Caller ID for E-mail,
appears to be encumbered with unclear and unnecessary patent license
claims. Correction: After seeing additional text from the MS license
today, Professor Moglen says it may prohibit use under the GPL.
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