"The Microsoft Permissive License, one of two licenses the
software maker submitted to the Open Source Initiative for approval
as open-source licenses in August, is unlikely to be approved in
its current form.
"There have been two principle objections to the license from
the open-source community, Michael Tiemann, the president of OSI,
told eWEEK in an interview here at the annual Gartner Open Source
Summit on Sept. 20..."