Microsoft Releases FlexWiki as Open Source

davemabe writes "Microsoft is apparently releasing its FlexWiki wiki implementation as an open source project. FlexWiki is the software used to run the wikis over at Channel 9. My question is: Is this software as good as the ever-extensible Kwiki implementation?"

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Uses the IBM Public License

[ashpool7]

Sheesh, RTFA and click on the SF link.

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html

GPL Incompatible due to patent clauses. Draw your own conclusions...

Re:Information about the CPL

[Elwood P Dowd]

Uh, no, I don't think so. From that discription, it sounds like a totally acceptable license. In fact, from the FSF's page:

Common Public License Version 1.0
This is a free software license but it is incompatible with the GPL.

The Common Public License is incompatible with the GPL because it has various specific requirements that are not in the GPL.

For example, it requires certain patent licenses be given that the GPL does not require. (We don't think those patent license requirements are inherently a bad idea, but nonetheless they are incompatible with the GNU GPL.)

This is the same issue with the latest Apache license. It's good, it's just GPL incompatible. If they ever make a new version of the GPL, it might contain identical requirements.