OSI Email Group Gets Catty Over Microsoft’s Permissive License Request

“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…'”

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