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OSI List Gets Catty Over Microsoft's Permissive License Request

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 18th Aug 2007 20:13 UTC

The OSI License-Discuss mailing list has been ablaze for the past few days since Microsoft submitted its Permissive License to the OSI for official open source license approval. Jon Rosenberg, source program director for Microsoft, posted, "Microsoft believes that this license provides unique value to the open source community by delivering simplicity, brevity, and permissive terms combined with intellectual property protection."

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RE[2]: Code?

by Xaero_Vincent on Sat 18th Aug 2007 22:13 UTC in reply to "RE: Code?"

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2006-08-18

Heh.

Just look at the number of GPL projects on CodePlex.

Well at least Microsoft was nice enough to allow license selection.

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RE[3]: Code?

by Beta on Sun 19th Aug 2007 00:33 in reply to "RE[2]: Code?"

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2005-07-06

Mhmm, nearly 12% of their hosted projects.

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RE[4]: Code?

by MollyC on Sun 19th Aug 2007 00:53 in reply to "RE[3]: Code?"

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2006-07-04

"Mhmm, nearly 12% of their hosted projects."

How are you guys determining the number of GPL projects on CodePlex? I must be blind, but I can't find anything on there that searches by license.

Edited 2007-08-19 00:56

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