For Approval: Microsoft Permissive License

[David Woolley]

Donovan Hawkins wrote:
> 
> There are a variety of licenses with "public" in the name on the FSF's 
> site and I don't see an obvious pattern forming about them. Some are 
> permissive, some are copyleft, some are weak copyleft, and some are GPL 
> incompatible. There seems to be plenty of room for the MS-PL under the 
> "public" label.

I believe the intended meaning of "public" was that the licence is 
granted to everyone, not just to a specific legal person, and it is the 
bit which indicates that the licence derives directly from the author, 
not from the redistributor.

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David Woolley
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