For Approval: Microsoft Permissive License

Alexander Terekhov alexander.terekhov at gmail.com
Fri Sep 28 12:04:42 UTC 2007


On 9/27/07, Tobia Conforto <tobia.conforto at linux.it> wrote:
[....]
> Notwithstanding the GPL incompatibility, which sadly seems to be a
> deliberate design goal

LOL.

http://www.crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3:mss:13552

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Subject: Re: MS-PL/GPL compatibility, was Re: For Approval: Microsoft
Permissive License
From: Tobia Conforto <tobia.conforto at linux.it>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 10:33:06 +0200

[...]

You are right, I was reading the GPL wrong!  (It's so long... :-)

I am now convinced that MS-PL code is compatible with the GPLv3*.
Thanks.

[...]

Tobia

* IA(still)NAL
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regards,
alexander.

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