For Approval: Microsoft Permissive License
Alexander Terekhov
alexander.terekhov at gmail.com
Fri Sep 28 20:28:45 UTC 2007
On 9/28/07, Matthew Flaschen <matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu> wrote:
> Alexander Terekhov wrote:
> > On 9/27/07, Jon Rosenberg (PBM) <jonr at microsoft.com> wrote:
> > [...]
> >> 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 look forward to your feedback. Thanks.
> >
> > Reciprocal is good. Open is not so good. Consider:
> >
> > * Microsoft Permissive License becomes Microsoft Academic License
>
> I prefer Open because Academic has essentially the same meaning as
> Permissive.
:-)
Your thinking is tainted by GNUish "totality" and "as a whole" silliness.
regards,
alexander.
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