For a big old school company like Microsoft to accept patches from the community is huge. I always grudgingly accepted there must be some sort of commercial risk ("Microsoft used my code and made 10 million dollars, now I'm going to sue them") holding them back.
Does anybody have insight on this topic? I'm currently building something that would benefit greatly from user contributions of code, but I'm wary about the legal implications (the project will be a commercial site, and while I have no problem publishing their code if I choose to integrate it into my site to enhance the user experience, I have no interest in publishing the core code for the rest of the site).
Does anybody have insight on this topic? I'm currently building something that would benefit greatly from user contributions of code, but I'm wary about the legal implications (the project will be a commercial site, and while I have no problem publishing their code if I choose to integrate it into my site to enhance the user experience, I have no interest in publishing the core code for the rest of the site).