Hi Daniel; We are not planning on adding the ms-pl any time soon. We are trying to take a principled stance against open source license proliferation.
I notice that Sourceforge supports the MS-PL, so you have an alternative to Codeplex if you need it. Chris On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Daniel Cazzulino <[email protected]> wrote: > > The Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL, > http://opensource.org/licenses/ms-pl.html) > is used by 2.7k+ projects (http://www.codeplex.com/site/search? > projectSearchText=&sortBy=PageViews&advSearch=true&licenses=Ms-PL) in > CodePlex. > > By not supporting such a license, you're limiting the migration of > people from that site, and also any project that happens to use > libraries/source from it (and there are a TON of very useful ones!). > > This makes Google Code appear somewhat unfriendly to .NET projects. > > This should be fixed, as otherwise Google Code is discarded and cannot > compete with CodePlex, which is quickly becoming more and more the > default opensource hosting for .NET projects. > > > -- Open Source Programs Manager, Google Inc. Google's Open Source and Developer programs can be found at http://code.google.com Personal Site and Weblog: http://dibona.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hosting at Google Code" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code-hosting?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
