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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/25/2026 4:54 PM, Greg Troxel
wrote:<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Great, the next thing to check is if the terms are actually compatible.
Enough people are fuzzy on licensing and willing to break the rules
because they think app stores are important, that one can't conclude
it's ok.</pre>
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Usual caveat - I am not a lawyer.<br>
The publisher agreement is <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/marketplace/msft-publisher-agreement">here</a>.<br>
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The relevant section appears to be 3b - <br>
<blockquote><strong>(b)</strong> <strong>Third-Party
Rights/Open-Source Licenses</strong>. Your Offer and Offer
Assets must not infringe or misappropriate any intellectual
property or personal right of any third party. If you license any
portion of your Offer from a third party or under any open-source
license, you are solely responsible for compliance with such terms
and for ensuring that Microsoft, in its capacity as your agent or
commissionaire, has the necessary rights to perform its
obligations to you under this Agreement. You are, at your sole
cost and expense, responsible for securing, reporting, and
maintaining all necessary rights, clearances, and consents and
paying all licensing fees (including applicable public performance
license fees or other consideration associated with providing
music or video (and all content embodied therein) in and through
your Offer), and for undertaking all related reporting
obligations.<br>
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For open source licenses, MS appears to have removed itself from the
licensing pathway between the person/organization submitting the
product and the customer. It is thus incumbent on the submitter to
provide the means for meeting the license requirements, such as
providing links to the license and source code. Perhaps these links
could be in the listing in the MS Store, or in the about screen of
the app. This is already the case for the license in QGIS. <br>
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Obviously an actual lawyer would need to verify this
interpretation. <br>
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