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FSF should also acknowledge that these are Free Software licences

FSF should also acknowledge that these are Free Software licences

Posted Oct 18, 2007 14:47 UTC (Thu) by coriordan (guest, #7544)
In reply to: FSF should also acknowledge that these are Free Software licenses by Tashlan
Parent article: OSI Approves Microsoft License Submissions

yes and no.  In the early 2000s, they were all publishing their own licences, but afterward,
Mozilla did a big relicense to GPL, and Sun's latest big liberation (Java) went GPL.

I think the trend might be in reverse now.


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