Boothby what you looked up does not seem to be the same as Microsoft Permissive License
--- (Ms-PL) - The Ms-PL is the least restrictive of the Microsoft source code licenses. It allows licensees to view, modify, and redistribute the source code for either commercial or non-commercial purposes. Under the Ms-PL, licensees may change the source code and share it with others. Licensees may also charge a licensing fee for their modified work if they so wish. Microsoft uses this license most commonly for its developer tools, applications, and components. --- MICROSOFT SHARED SOURCE CLI, C#, AND JSCRIPT LICENSE This License governs use of the accompanying Software, and your use of the Software constitutes acceptance of this license. You may use this Software for any non-commercial purpose, subject to the restrictions in this license. Some purposes which can be non-commercial are teaching, academic research, and personal experimentation. You may also distribute this Software with books or other teaching materials, or publish the Software on websites, that are intended to teach the use of the Software. On 2/18/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In the back of my non-lawyer head I believe that either the Open Source > > Initiative or the FSE have some infrastructure in place to help projects > > like > > SAGE with these questions. What about the Microsoft lawyers? As they are > > already involved don't they have a position on if the license is GPL > > compatible? > > FSF says: > Incompatible, > This license does not permit commercial distribution, and only allows > commercial use under certain circumstances. > > Microsoft has other licenses which it describes as "Shared Source", some > of which have different restrictions. > > http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/index_html#SoftwareLicenses > > OSI doesn't have an entry for it. > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
