And, for the record, I actually like coding in c#. It's pretty fun. On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 7:55 PM, Chris DiBona <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
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