[Tfug] OSI Approves Microsoft License Submissions

[Jude Nelson]

It looks like MS's licenses are GPL and BSD clones, but incompatible
with the originals.  I wonder if this is an attempt to collect code to
prevent it from finding its way into Free Software.

On 10/17/07, Glen Pfeiffer <glen at thepfeiffers.net> wrote:
> > Acting on the advice of the License Approval Chair, the OSI
> > Board today approved the Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL) and
> > the Microsoft Reciprocal License (Ms-RL).
>
> http://opensource.org/node/207
>
> It should be interesting to see what happens with these over the
> next couple years. Though I doubt there will be much positive or
> negative impact from this, I do like watching Microsoft's
> reaction to OSS.
>
> --
> Glen
>
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