Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 22nd Sep 2007 18:42 UTC, submitted by Rahul
The Microsoft Permissive License, one of two licenses the software maker submitted to the Open Source Initiative for approval as open-source licenses in August, is unlikely to be approved in its current form. There have been two principle objections to the license from the open-source community, Michael Tiemann, the president of OSI, told eWEEK in an interview here at the annual Gartner Open Source Summit on Sept. 20. The first objection is that the use of the word 'permissive' in the license title implies an expectation that the license does not meet. The second complaint is that the MS-PL is incompatible with a large number of other open-source licenses, he said.
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After reading the article, I note that it states "but that alone is not a reason to condemn a license that is trying to build community."
It seems fundamentally wrong to me to view a license as a builder of a community. I have no problem with a company trying to build a community, but a license does not seem like the proper way of doing it.
There are always going to be people against a said license for one reason or another. If you follow politics of the software world, forgetting the commercial world for sake of example, there seems to me to be two camps: 'Free' and 'Open'.
The Open camp has a plethora of licenses (OSI lists them) and compatibility is often a major issue, which leads us to the Free camp, which is basically FSF adherents.
RMS (free) and ESR (open) both seem to criticize the other. Outside and to many inside, both seem to be essentially the same thing.
I am not sure a license truly built these communities. I would hope any community does not make the corner stone a piece of legal documentation.