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[News] Microsoft Faces Barriers in OSI Embrace-to-Destroy, GPL Praised

  • Subject: [News] Microsoft Faces Barriers in OSI Embrace-to-Destroy, GPL Praised
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 04:39:37 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Do Microsoft's licenses stand a chance of OSI approval?

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| the OSI has been actively trying to reduce license proliferation and it could 
| be that Microsoft’s licenses are seen as too similar to existing licenses to 
| warrant separate approval.  
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http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2007/07/do_microsofts_l.html

Free Software Licensing, Part 2: Beyond GPL

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| If software is released without a license whatsoever, then users must assume 
| it's copyrighted. "The recipients wouldn't have permission to share or modify 
| the work," Brett Smith, Free Software Foundation licensing compliance 
| engineer, told LinuxInsider. "So, if you release software without any 
| license, it's not free software."    
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/58530.html

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