I looked at the various licenses and have found something a bit odd. Looking at the APSL license:
1.8 "Personal Use" means use of Covered Code by an individual solely for his or her personal, private and non-commercial purposes. An individual's use of Covered Code in his or her capacity as an officer, employee, member, independent contractor or agent of a corporation, business or organization (commercial or non-commercial) does not qualify as Personal Use. 2.1 You may use, reproduce, display, perform, modify and distribute Original Code, with or without Modifications, solely for Your internal research and development and/or Personal Use, provided that in each instance: Now lets look at the Microsoft Broad Source License: You can use this Software for any non-commercial purpose, including distributing derivatives. Running your business operations would not be considered non-commercial. Can someone please tell me what the difference is and why the APSL is considered Open Source and why the Microsoft License is not? I saw the following email (http://www.crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3:mss:3155:200104:ahknalddnbodbnpmamja) about this and am confused even further I am not trying to be a pain or start an argument. The reason why I am puzzled is because: 1) I want to do things right 2) I want to say the right things 3) I want to release some source code under the best license for my circumstances. Christian Gross -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3
