Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Windows Phone Marketplace bans the GPL, and the App Store should too

A blog post made Wednesday by Red Hat employee Jan Wildeboer argued that the terms and conditions that developers agree to before submitting software to Microsoft for inclusion in Xbox LIVE Arcade and Windows Phone 7 Marketplace prohibits the use of copyleft licenses like the GPL. Any license that mandates source code redistribution or a compulsory right to produce derivative works is banned.

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