For Approval: The Azure License

[Wilson, Andrew]

Carlo Piana [OSI] [mailto:osi-review at piana.eu] wrote:

> I seem to remember that somebody made reference to the "advertisement"
> clause in the 4-clauses BSD and the fact that this specific clause is
> incompatible with the GPL. It did not come from me though, and I have
> not investigated on whether your attribution text is any close to the
> advertisement clause.

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#OriginalBSD
FSF also says the attribution language in the OpenSSL license
makes it GPL-incompatible.  I understand that GPL compatibility
is a non-goal for you. Only a guess, but I believe
FSF would probably have a similar reaction to your
attribution language.

Andy Wilson
Intel open source technology center

P.S. When I see "Azure," I think Bentley, not MSFT.
The Bentley is a nice mental picture :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bentley_Azure