Microsoft's Open Source Licenses

[Matthew Flaschen]

Jon Rosenberg (PBM) wrote:
> Hi Everyone - During the approval process, Sam Ramji, Bill Hilf and I
> committed to communicating with license-discuss on the changes we
> planned to make to our Open Source and Shared Source web properties.

Thank you.

> *         The Shared Source site will classify source code licenses
> by type. "Open Source" will be one type. The OSI approved licenses
> will be distinguished from our product source licenses and from other
> licenses

That sounds good.

> that may conform to many, but not all, provisions of the
> OSD.

I urge you not to approach the OSD like this.  Shared source licenses
can't meaningfully be considered almost OSD-compliant.  They fail /core/
parts of the definition.


> *         The OSI approved licenses will live on
> www.microsoft.com/opensource/<http://www.microsoft.com/opensource/> -
> separate from the Shared Source Initiative web site.
> 
> *         Only projects licensed under the MS-PL and MS-RL will be
> described as "Open Source"

Again, thank you for committing to this.

Matt Flaschen