What is the difference between the two licences?

Posted Aug 17, 2007 15:37 UTC (Fri) by jamesh (guest, #1159)
In reply to: What is the difference between the two licences? by epa
Parent article: Two Microsoft licenses submitted for OSI approval

If I release some code under the BSD license and you then combine it with your own code, you can release the combination under pretty much any terms you want.

If you distribute the source code to someone, and that person extracts the portion that was under the BSD license, then they can use it under those terms (you did leave the copyright and permission notice in place like the license requires, right?).

This is not the same as conversion of LGPL code to GPL, which is an option given by the original author to people wanting to redistribute the code.

From my reading, the MS-PL clause is effectively equivalent to BSD here (even if the wording is slightly different).