NewsForge: Are Microsoft’s New Licenses Open Source?

” ast week, Microsoft announced a set of new Shared Source
licenses. Normally, new Microsoft licenses wouldn’t be cause for
the open source community to pay attention, but the new Shared
Source Licenses have gotten praise from open source proponents such
as Tim O’Reilly, and even the Free Software Foundation Europe
(FSFE) has weighed in with positive comments.

“It looks like Microsoft is even making some headway with the
Open Source Initiative (OSI), the group that coined the term ‘open
source.’ Intel’s Danese Cooper, a member of the OSI board of
directors, writes that ‘Microsoft did meet with a quorum of the OSI
Board and we discussed our commitment to equal application of the
license approval process and gave them very preliminary feedback on
the licenses as they appear on the MSDN website. So far,
Microsoft’s licenses have not yet been submitted to License-Discuss
for public discussion, but OSI is hopeful that they will
be…'”

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