For Approval: Microsoft Permissive License

Russell Nelson nelson at crynwr.com
Sun Dec 11 21:44:44 UTC 2005


John Cowan writes:
 > Microsoft is adding new licenses to its Shared Source Initiative which I
 > believe qualify as open-source licenses.  The first of these is a simple
 > permissive license called the Microsoft Permissive License (MS-PL).

For similar reasons to that given for the Microsoft Community License
we should defer consideration of this license.

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