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Personally I think the Microsoft Public License is a pretty good open
source license and I'm not sure the confusion of *another* license
change is worth it. My $0.02...<br>
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All the best,<br>
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Michael<br>
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On 19/04/2010 23:55, Dino Viehland wrote:
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<p class="MsoNormal">As you probably know IronPython has a long
history of
releasing our source code under permissive licenses. Initially
IronPython
was released under a specific IronPython license which was quite
similar to the
Microsoft Public License (PS-Pl) we ship under today. We occasionally
hear feedback, questions and a general lack of familiarity from you
about the
license that we use. And in several instances, we have been asked why
we
don’t adopt a more popular license, such as the Apache 2.0 License.
We are therefore considering switching our license to a well known
permissive
license which is more commonly used by open source projects. Currently
we
are considering the Apache License, Version 2.0. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We’d like to hear your feedback before we make
any
decisions. Do you think adopting a more popular license, such as the
Apache License, would be a good change for IronPython?<o:p></o:p></p>
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