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Microsoft Apologizes to Open Source Initiative for Policy Violation

“After outcry from various constituencies over the past couple
of days, Microsoft has pulled from its CodePlex site its Sandcastle
project for failure to comply with the terms and conditions
required in order to be qualify as bona-fide open source.

“Sandcastle is a documentation compiler for managed class
libraries that was labeled as being available under the Microsoft
Permissive License, one of two Open Source Initiative-approved
licenses under which Microsoft provides access to its source
code…”

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