On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Dino Viehland <di...@microsoft.com> wrote: > > Do you think adopting a more popular license, such as the Apache License, > would be a good change for IronPython?
My $.02: there aren't a lot of people that are familiar with the MS public licenses compared to the Apache/GPL/BSD/etc licenses. For many of them, the mention of "Microsoft" in the license name immediately (erroneously, but immediately nonetheless) makes them conclude a project isn't open source. Adopting a license that people are familiar with will make it easier for them to come to terms with the fact that Microsoft can and does sponsor open-source projects. And it convinces them from the outset that there isn't some hidden backdoor in the license for Microsoft to exploit. _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@lists.ironpython.com http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com
