Star Microsoft To Submit Shared Source Licenses to OSI
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 26th Jul 2007 20:31 UTC, submitted by poundsmack
Microsoft "In his keynote at OSCON, Microsoft General Manager of Platform Strategy Bill Hilf announced that Microsoft is submitting its shared source licenses to the Open Source Initiative. This is a huge, long-awaited move. It will be earthshaking for both Microsoft and for the open source community if the licenses are in fact certified as open source licenses. Microsoft has been releasing a lot of software as shared source (nearly 650 projects, according to Bill). If this is suddenly certified as true open source software, it will be a lot harder to draw a bright line between Microsoft and the open source community." In addition, Microsoft has launched a new website where it details its relationship with open source.
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fretinator
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2005-07-06

If, however, you are using person B's work, and person B's work is integrated with person A's work, then you have to pay person A's fee.


So what does "integrated with" mean? Person B can modify and redistribute for free, but if it is "integrated with", he cannot. What does that mean?

(serious question)

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