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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.
I wish the article had gone into a little more detail about license incompatibilities, because the chicken****(dung) business over the license name doesn't exactly give me warm fuzzies.
Never mind that permissive is in the eye of the beholder and is a relative term to boot. Compared to other Microsoft licenses, for example, I'll bet the MPL borders on being public domain.
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Never mind that permissive is in the eye of the beholder and is a relative term to boot. Compared to other Microsoft licenses, for example, I'll bet the MPL borders on being public domain.