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[...] sam mcloughln wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptThe Open Source Initiative has announced that the OSI Board has approved the Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL) and the Microsoft Reciprocal License (Ms-RL) as satisfying the criteria of the Open Source Definition, following their … [...]

[...] sam mcloughln wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt [...]

[...] sam mcloughln wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptThe Open Source Initiative has announced that the OSI Board has approved the Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL) and the Microsoft Reciprocal License (Ms-RL) as satisfying the criteria of the Open Source Definition, following their … [...]

Matthew, don’t forget that open source licences can be, and are, used by anyone and everyone. The utility of licences like Ms-PL and Ms-RL ultimately is likely to have nothing particularly to do with Microsoft Corporation or its codebases.

I don’t personally find either of these licences compelling or particularly innovative, but the beauty of open source is that others with different views can use them if they suit a coder’s needs.

Rick Moen
rick@linuxmafia.com

[...] Matthew Aslett wrote a fantastic post today on “OSI approves Microsoft licenses”Here’s ONLY a quick extract [...]

[...] What’s wrong with Microsoft being part of the “Open Source” movement? Remember that many of the projects to be considered are tied to Sharepoint or SQL Server or whatever proprietary stack is necessary for these arbitrary blocks of code to run. We covered this issue many times before. The “open source” terminology has just become less relevant than ever before. Sad day. For now though it’s all eyes on Microsoft to see what the company will do next, and in many ways this will be more interesting than whether or not the OSI approved the licenses. For reasons that were never fully explained, Microsoft wanted open source licenses. [...]

[...] The news is undoubtedly making waves in the wider open source community.  Matthew Aslett of The 451 Group hits the nail on the head with this observation: For some, this announcement is confirmation that the sky is falling and the end of the world is nigh. For others, it represents the conclusion to a process that has seen Microsoft engaging with the OSI on the OSI’s terms and showing that it is willing to be flexible. [...]

[...] Additional coverage: Matt Asay Matthew Aslett [...]

[...] A few days ago we saw Microsoft successfully invading the OSI. This came a couple of weeks after Steve Ballmer had said that he wants all open source to happen on top Windows (with no planned support for other platforms). [...]

[...] However, Matthew Aslett, an analyst with The 451 Group, argued on a company blog that the question should not revolve around the approval, but about what Microsoft intends to do with its new open source status. [...]

[...] Pam wrote an interesting post today on [...]

[...] (OSI)-approved license.” This is the first major use of Ms-PL that I am aware of since it was approved by the OSI in [...]

[...] will be interesting to see whether Microsoft blurs the distinction of its now OSI-approved licenses, the Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL) and Microsoft Reciprocal License (Ms-RL), and other [...]

[...] FOSS into the mainstream was provided by Microsoft’s successful attempt to have two licenses approved by the Open Source Initiative. There are those that see Microsoft’s creeping engagement with [...]