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(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 5:09 AM, Yuri Astrakhan
<yastrakhan(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
<flame war ahead>
For those not adicted to slashdot, see here
<
http://news.slashdot.org/story/15/02/04/0332238/microsoft-open-sources-core…
.
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?
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