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RE: Re: Are projects, which I manage whis tortoise / subversion automaticly under GPL Lizenz?

From: Dale Hirt <dale_at_sbcltd.com>
Date: 2005-09-17 18:19:01 CEST

Couldn't that be considered restraint of trade?

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From: Ryan Ernst [mailto:rernst-lists@warflame.ca]
Sent: Sat 9/17/2005 8:37 AM
To: users@subversion.tigris.org
Subject: Re: Are projects, which I manage whis tortoise / subversion automaticly under GPL Lizenz?

Romain Prévost wrote:
> AKAIK, Subversion's license is not even GPL. It's an Apache/BSD as
> said on the homepage, but I don't know if it allows reuse of the code
> for commercial purpose, like the original BSD.
>
> Generally speaking, I don't even know a license which restricts you
> from using the datas you generate with any application the way you
> want, as long as those datas are truly yours.

There are provisions in the MS Visual Studio license agreement which
prevent you from using it to develop, among other things, a
wordprocessor or spreadsheet program.

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