19 Aug
2016
19 Aug
'16
5:47 p.m.
2016-08-19 17:36 GMT+02:00 Jayesh Badwaik <archlinux@jayeshbadwaik.in>:
The point was patents.
A company can give out licenses to use a patent. If Microsoft would have patented stuff in PowerShell, but then releases them with the following license included:
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software ...
Then Microsoft has given you a license to use that patent under the conditions listed above, and they cannot sue you. Please correct me if I'm mistaken.