Functionally. If you make a loud public declaration "WE SHALL NOT SUE" then you sue, judges *tend* to look upon it very unfavourably. YMMV of course.
On 4 February 2015 at 13:42, Nikolas Everett neverett@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 5:09 AM, Yuri Astrakhan yastrakhan@wikimedia.org wrote:
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For those not adicted to slashdot, see here < http://news.slashdot.org/story/15/02/04/0332238/microsoft-open-sources-corec...
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Licenced under MIT https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/blob/master/LICENSE.TXT, plus an additional patents promise https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/blob/master/PATENTS.TXT.
I'm not sure how relevant it is, but are promises legally binding? _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l