For Approval: Microsoft Permissive License

[Chris Travers]

On 9/26/07, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:
>
> Quoting Matthew Flaschen (matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu):
>
> > As I said, it's OSD-compliant (I think everyone agrees on this).  But
> > that's clearly not the only criteria OSI uses.
>
> Is that so?  (That's not intended to be rhetorical.)  I see nothing on
> http://www.opensource.org/approval that documents other requirements
> beyond procedural/review steps to assure OSD-compliance.


There have been attempts to add other guidelines in the past to reduce
license proliferation.  Of course those attempts appear to be dead in the
water (past guidelines would probably have mandated the rejection of the GPL
v3).

Best Wishes,
Chris Travers
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