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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2005-07-06
This is a good decision for OSI, the license text, not the author should be evaluated.
Alas, Microsoft has not given the same consideration in return to things like ODF, where arguments against it have boiled down to personal attacks and IBM conspiracies.
Give that the OSI is a loosely knit body of interested parties, I fail to see why anyone would think that someone could just wander in and get a license approved regardless of their track record.