For Approval: Microsoft Permissive License

[Donovan Hawkins]

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Jon Rosenberg (PBM) wrote:

> As I stated in my previous post, our goal is clarity and transparency. 
> The goal of the license titles was clear differentiation between a 
> reciprocal license and a permissive license, so I would like to propose 
> a revision that I hope will get us closer to that goal.  I would like to 
> get all of your feedback on the following name revisions:
> *       Microsoft Community License becomes Microsoft Reciprocal License
> *       Microsoft Permissive License becomes Microsoft Open License

I think those names are much better and less likely to confuse.

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