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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Well that number doesn't sound right to me because there are 2,053 projects on CodePlex and searching for GPL gives me 5 projects. But I've scanned just a few projects yet saw more than five GPL licensed projects and then a couple BSD, and MIT licensed projects. So the search mechanism is clearly ineffective when querying for projects by license.
Edited 2007-08-19 16:56
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2006-08-18
Where did you get that number?
I dont disagree that it might be accurate but I couldnt find it myself.
Anyway, there are 82,700 GPL/LGPL combined projects on SourceForge, some being mixed with other licenses.