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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2006-02-27
Pardon me, this is going to be a little bit offtopic (feel free to mod me down): Can someone tell me the differences in compatibility with other licenses between GPLv2 and GPLv3 (if, of course, there are any)?
edit: clarification (i presume)
Edited 2007-09-22 19:27