For Approval: Microsoft Permissive License
Matthew Flaschen
matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu
Wed Sep 26 22:34:35 UTC 2007
Rick Moen 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.
I'm talking about what they use, not what they're supposed to use. I
can give many examples of times OSI has been reluctant to approve an
OSD-compliant license. For instance, they held off on SimPL because it
was (mistakenly) believed incompatible with GPLv2.
Matt Flaschen
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