Microsoft Reduces Shared Source Licenses

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday October 19, 2005 @05:11AM from the slowly-becoming-more-geek-friendly dept.

UltimaGuy writes to tell us eWeek is reporting that Microsoft will be reducing the number of licenses that it will use for its Shared Source Initiative. Instead of more than 10 different licenses they are aiming for just three core licenses. The first license format, Ms-PL (Microsoft Permissive License), is similar to the BSD license while the second, Ms-CL (Microsoft Community License), is based on the Mozilla Public License. The third format, Ms-RL (Microsoft Reference License), "has no open-source alternative and is a reference-only license that allows licensees to view source code in order to gain a deeper understanding of the inner workings of Microsoft technology."

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Fags. by CmdrTaco+(troll) · 2005-10-19 05:13 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Fags.

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I hope high gas prices are depriving your children, you fucking dumbass.
Reference License by mlawmlaw · 2005-10-19 05:17 · Score: 0, Flamebait

I have a license that allows you to give me donations for my software project. I call it a Give Me Money license. Open Source Projects have no license like this one either.
The good ol' BSD by no_barcode · 2005-10-19 05:29 · Score: -1, Flamebait

The first license format, Ms-PL (Microsoft Permissive License), is similar to the BSD license while the second...

You can buy BSDs? They use to be free, along with a core-dump.
Hmmm... by Anonymous Coward · 2005-10-19 05:31 · Score: -1, Flamebait

...fuck you, Microsoft.