Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 16th Oct 2007 20:45 UTC, submitted by Rahul
"Acting on the advice of the License Approval Chair, the OSI Board today approved the Microsoft Public License and the Microsoft Reciprocal License. The decision to approve was informed by the overwhelming (though not unanimous) consensus from the open source community that these licenses satisfied the 10 criteria of the Open Source definition, and should therefore be approved."
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2006-11-19
They've already licensed core parts of Silverlight and many other projects with their (now) open source licenses.
This was not just for show. For example mono project was able to make a port (Moonlight) in a short time, and now it will be supported by Microsoft when mature enough (some parts like VC1 codec are problem).
This is a good decision for OSI, the license text, not the author should be evaluated.
Edited 2007-10-16 21:08