:OSI Email Group Gets Catty Over Microsoft's Permissive License Request
OSI Email Group Gets Catty Over Microsoft's Permissive License Request Aug 20, 2007, 12 :45 UTC (5 Talkback[s]) (4438 reads) (Other stories by Tina Gasperson)
"The OSI License-Discuss mailing list has been ablaze for the past few days since Microsoft submitted its Permissive License (MS-PL) to the OSI [Open Source Initiative] for official open source license approval. Jon Rosenberg, source program director for Microsoft, posted, 'Microsoft believes that this license provides unique value to the open source community by delivering simplicity, brevity, and permissive terms combined with intellectual property protection.'
"Rosenberg compared the MS-PL to the new BSD license and the Apache 2.0 license. 'However, the new BSD license does not contain an explicit patent grant,' he wrote. 'In addition, we sought to create a license that is simple, short, and easy to understand...'"
