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FSF should also acknowledge that these are Free Software licenses

FSF should also acknowledge that these are Free Software licenses

Posted Oct 17, 2007 19:14 UTC (Wed) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)
In reply to: FSF should also acknowledge that these are Free Software licenses by dwalters
Parent article: OSI Approves Microsoft License Submissions

The FSF Europe people said that the licenses were free software licenses long before the OSI did.

They are unlikely to promote their use because of GPL compatibility issues, but they appear to meet the "four freedoms" standard.


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