Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 22nd Sep 2007 18:42 UTC, submitted by Rahul
The Microsoft Permissive License, one of two licenses the software maker submitted to the Open Source Initiative for approval as open-source licenses in August, is unlikely to be approved in its current form. There have been two principle objections to the license from the open-source community, Michael Tiemann, the president of OSI, told eWEEK in an interview here at the annual Gartner Open Source Summit on Sept. 20. The first objection is that the use of the word 'permissive' in the license title implies an expectation that the license does not meet. The second complaint is that the MS-PL is incompatible with a large number of other open-source licenses, he said.
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RE[5]: OSI trashes its credibility and splits open-source
by archiesteel on Sun 23rd Sep 2007 03:48
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Be aware that there are thousands of Windows open-source developers. I don't think it would be sane to make them feel they're class-B citizens in OSI
...the *vast* majority of which use the GPL, BSDL, MIT or other real open-source/free software licenses. Why should they care if Microsoft's licenses are rejected? You're not making any sense.
As for Linus, Stallman and Raymond, I missed your conspiracy theory, but I'll wager that you're talking about IBM. Did I win? It's easy, nowadays whenever MS apologists want to defend their favorite monopolist, they simply say "b-b-but IBM", just like Republicans blame everything on Clinton...
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2005-07-06
Don't be shy, say it!
I already said that earlier. A few key figures get their pockets filled in order to be pastors for thousands of sheeps.
By the way, RMS is definitely not a "OSIs puppet".
Never said that. OSI is a puppet itself, as we are witnessing. RMS is just a puppet of people paying his bills. That's not OSI.
Nothing new. The OSI has already split the Free Software community.
You just have to look at all this flame wars on all the news sites etc. We really don't need a discussion about MS licenses to split the community. This already happens many years ago. But it's not necessarily a problem.
When you have rules, you always got splitted. But I didn't mean that. If OSI proves that rules they set are just fog in order to kick out the ones they don't like (regardless actual merit or compliance), it would just position itself as defendant of Linux-open-source.
Be aware that there are thousands of Windows open-source developers. I don't think it would be sane to make them feel they're class-B citizens in OSI because that would of course led the creation of a "W-OSI", where they could still be class-A citizens.
While I have my own reserves to the whole OS community, there's no reason to do that. Unless you want to defend non-W big guys.