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Submission + - OSI approves two Microsoft shared-source licenses (linuxworld.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 16, 2007 @05:51PM

An anonymous reader writes: Linuxworld reports that The board of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) has approved two Microsoft Corp. licenses that allow proprietary source code to be shared, a move that is likely to inspire protest and spur controversy for die-hard open-source proponents.
There's the link to OSI's original announcement.

Submission + - OSI approves Microsoft's open source licenses

Submitted by Stony Stevenson on Tuesday October 16, 2007 @05:43PM

Stony Stevenson writes: The Open Source Initiative has approved the Microsoft Public Licence and Microsoft Reciprocal Licence, officially branding them as open source licences. The OSI approves licences by validating compliance to ten rules set in the Open Source Definition. The decision was reached with an "overwhelming majority " of the votes, but not unanimously, OSI president Michael Tiemann said in a posting on the group's website.

Microsoft welcomed the decision. "This is a significant milestone in the progression of Microsoft's open source strategy and the company's ongoing commitment to participation in the open source community to effectively meet the evolving needs of developers," the company said in an emailed statement. But I'm not so sure the open source community will be so happy about it. Critics have charged in the past that the addition of the licence is an attempt by Microsoft to undermine open source.

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