A home-cooked Microsoft license has carved out a small but growing following among the open-source community in less than two years.
Microsoft’s Public License (MS-PL) is used by 1.03 per cent of open-source projects less than two-years after it was officially recognized by the Open-Source Initiative and is poised to overtake the Mozilla Public License (MPL) in terms of popularity.
MS-PL is tenth in a list of licenses used by the community with MPL coming ninth and used by 1.25 per cent of projects. There’s no sign of the Microsoft Reciprocal License, accepted by the OSI at the same time as MS-PL.
Uncategorized June 22nd 2009