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And then MS brings out new licenses

Story: Microsoft slams open source licensing chaosTotal Replies: 1
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purplewizard

Oct 20, 2005
7:26 AM EDT 		I read the headline to this story having just read that MS have just brought out some new Shared Source license that are at first appearances a giant step toward their own GPL or MPL license.

Makes them seem inconsistant if it's the case.
dinotrac

Oct 20, 2005
7:31 AM EDT 		The best part of licensing chaos is that Microsoft changes it's licenses with some regularity -- and doesn't tell you. My favorites are service packs that manage to bring along new license restrictions.

Give me open source "chaos" any time.

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