Originally Posted by
Urthwhyte
Actually, Microsoft's rules are incredibly liberal relative to its size.
Ok maybe I should clarify...my company has pretty decent rules around this. If you bother going through the process, you can get most tools approved for use if they're sane. What my company is looking out for, is stupid licenses that could allow the tool's copyright owner to claim some right or force some action with regard to the content it produces. e.g. a text editor that says it owns any files you create. That would be an extreme case...less extreme is the "viral" GPL quality.
I'm sure Microsoft is careful about GPL licensed software, no?