On August 9,
Office 2007 Key, Microsoft created beneficial on its guarantee to submit its Shared Supply licenses to the Open Source Initiative for consideration as certified open-source licenses.Microsoft submitted two of its three Shared Source licenses for consideration: The Microsoft Permissive License (MS-PL) and Microsoft Local community License (MS-CL). It did not submit the Microsoft Reference License (MS-RL).According to Microsoft Port 25 blogger Jon Rosenberg:“We’ve also provided the license approval committee with our analysis of how these new submissions contribute towards the body of OSI approved licenses. In addition we’ve sent an e-mail to the license-discuss alias,
Office 2010 Activation Key, describing the submission. We look forward to some lively discussion on license-discuss over the next week.”I asked at the end of July why Microsoft might be seeking OSI approval now (after rejecting that idea a year ago). My ZDNet blogging colleague Dana Blankenhorn noted that SugarCRM (one of Microsoft;s interoperability partners) recently received OSI approval for its license. Blankenhorn believes the OSI intentionally is herding cats and attempting to corral all of them in the OSI pen,
Windows 7 Pro Product Key, avoiding an open-source licensing war.Do developers care whether Microsoft;s Shared Source licenses are OSI-approved? To customers?