Microsoft Rebuilds Open Source Sandcastle
Jul 03, 2008, 21:00 (18 Talkback[s])
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"Microsoft is apparently serious about its efforts to adhere to
the letter of the Open Source Definition and is now set to relaunch
its Sandcastle effort as a result. Nearly a month ago Microsoft
pulled the Sandcastle project from its CodePlex site because it was
listed as being open source (under the OSI approved Ms-PL) when in
fact it wasn't because it didn't adhere to the licensing terms of
open source. Sandcastle which is a documentation compiler for
managed class libraries did not have source code open and available
for download.
"Sam Ramji who runs Microsoft's Open Source Lab has now
confirmed on his blog that Sandcastle is now set to re-appear on
CodePlex as a fully compliant open source project..."
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