For Approval: Microsoft Public License

[Matthew Flaschen]

Tzeng, Nigel H. wrote:
> Russ Nelson wrote:
> 
>> There's been a huge amount of discussion of this license, some of
>> it prompted by the name.  Now that that has been changed, if there
>> are any remaining objections, please post them under this thread.
> 
> 
> I had a question that I hadn't seen answered.  The major exception
> (other than name) that I saw was that MS-PL was "uniquely
> incompatible". Had that been addressed and what does that mean?

It means MS-PL code can't be incorporated into open source projects
under some other licenses.

> From a personal/immediate standpoint the other OSI license I would
> want to be compatible with MS-PL is the NOSA license.

You may be able to use NOSA (NASA Open Source Agreement) code within a
mostly MS-PL project because of the Larger Work clause in NOSA.

Matt Flaschen