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BrokeBody
August 20th, 2007, 01:24 PM
http://www.linux.com/feature/118677



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."

Code licensed under the MS-PL cannot be redistributed under the terms of any other license, but it can be combined with works released under the terms of other licenses, as long as those other licenses permit it.

heimo
August 20th, 2007, 01:30 PM
Very interesting, long discussion about it:
http://www.nabble.com/For-Approval%3A-Microsoft-Permissive-License-t4249705.html

Seisen
August 20th, 2007, 01:51 PM
All righty then..........now lets see how many peoplehop on the MS-PL license bandwagon, cause you know everybody is doing it. :lolflag::lolflag: