Special Treatment

Special Treatment

Posted Oct 17, 2007 7:12 UTC (Wed) by Rehdon (guest, #45440)
In reply to: Special Treatment by man_ls
Parent article: OSI Approves Microsoft License Submissions

Because they're *not* duplicative: they are Microsoft's versions of the GPL and BSD licence,
only specially tailored so that they aren't GPL-compatible, as it has been pointed out above.
So they serve a very special purpose: have MS experiment with OSS without risking to
contribute a single line of code to the OSS world.

Are they bad (in that they betray the spirit of FLOSS)? Yes.
Are they OSI-compliant? Yes again (based on what I've read, I'll skip actually reading them
thank you :).

I really can't see another outcome out of this submission.

rehdon

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