[Fwd: Re: For Approval: The Azure License]

Joel Sherrill joel.sherrill at oarcorp.com
Wed Jul 8 19:54:03 UTC 2009


Hi,

An earlier comment that Microsoft Azure was
unknown bothered me. But not enough to
reply immediately. :)

Microsoft Azure isn't an obscure research
project. You should reconsider using another
name. Azure is Microsoft's cloud computing
offering if I read the marketing speak correctly.

http://www.microsoft.com/azure/default.mspx

--joel

Wilson, Andrew wrote:
> Kenneth Ballenegger [mailto:seoxys at gmail.com] wrote:
>
>   
>> Wilson: Good point about big OSS projects having many copyright
>> holders. I could add a clause that states that in case there are
>> multiple copyright holders, attribution should be given to the group
>> as a whole (eg. Contains code from the Linux project [link]) -- do you
>> think that would work?
>>     
>
> Yes, that would work.  Require a single link either to the Initial Developer's page,
> or to the main project page, where the list of contributors can be as long as you
> like.  Avoid NASCAR-ization of projects who use your code.
>
> Andy Wilson
> Intel open source technology center
>   


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