On Apr 20, 2010, at 6:21 PM, Rory Plaire wrote: > > 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. >
This makes good sense to me. +1 for MIT license or somesuch. Raymond P.S. Thank you Microsoft for this excellent project. _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@lists.ironpython.com http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com
