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[4]: To be honest...
by BluenoseJake on Mon 20th Aug 2007 01:13
in reply to "RE[3]: To be honest..."
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The license and the license' owner should both be under investigation. If Microsoft is going to happily give up all ownership and claims to ownership (including trademarks) then we can evaluate just the license.