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OSI Calls for Major Revisions to Microsoft Permissive License

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 21, 2007

“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…”

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Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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