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MS Reveals Info On New RSS Extensions

Posted by Zonk on from the many-hands-make-light-work dept.

dizzy_p writes "Microsoft released yesterday more information on their earlier announced extensions to the RSS format(s). The specifications can be found on MSDN. The question is, will the mainstream developer adopt these specifications, or will they only live in the Microsoft "Blogosphere" (To quote MSDN). The specifications in question are named Microsoft Simple Sharing Extensions Specification and Microsoft Simple List Extensions Specification"

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  1. Proprietary? by rmsousa · · Score: 5, Informative

    RTFA. Specially at the end. The text of the specification is under a Creative Commons license. Also, MS explicitly states that they have no intention of burdening implementations of the standard with patents.

  2. Licensed Under Creative Commons by ThinkFr33ly · · Score: 5, Informative

    FTFA: Microsoft's copyrights in this specification are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.

    This license is more simple, but the same in principle, to the GPL.