www/licenses license-list.html

[Brett Smith]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Brett Smith <brett>     09/02/11 16:46:27

Modified files:
        licenses       : license-list.html 

Log message:
        reclassify Ms-PL as GPL-incompatible; approved by RMS
        
        This change is being made based on public statements by Microsoft
        representatives that we hadn't seen before.  The languange is section
        3(a) of the license can be interpreted as a weak copyleft; it
        resembles language in the CPL and EPL, and those licenses' authors say
        the language sets up a weak copyleft
        (http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-cplfaq.html#USEINANOTHER).
        
        Previously, we thought the whole point of the Ms-RL is that it was a
        copyleft license, and so interpreting this language as a copyleft in
        the Ms-PL would be an error.  In other words, the existence of the two
        separate licenses seemed like a statement of intent in itself.  That
        view now seems mistaken: apparently the distinction between the two
        boils down to the fact that the Ms-RL requires you to provide
        Ms-RL-covered source when you distribute the software in object code
        form.  Jon Rosenberg of Microsoft seems to make it clear that Ms-PL is
        meant to provide a weak copyleft in
        
<http://www.crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3:msn:11341:mkohfpmjekmjelobgffa>,
        especially in the first part of section II.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/licenses/license-list.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.247&r2=1.248

Patches:
Index: license-list.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/licenses/license-list.html,v
retrieving revision 1.247
retrieving revision 1.248
diff -u -b -r1.247 -r1.248
--- license-list.html   22 Jan 2009 15:57:24 -0000      1.247
+++ license-list.html   11 Feb 2009 16:46:23 -0000      1.248
@@ -396,19 +396,6 @@
   for their own works.  The <a href="#FreeBSD">FreeBSD License</a> is
   similarly permissive and brief.</p></dd>
 
-<dt><a id="ms-pl" 
href="http://www.microsoft.com/opensource/licenses.mspx";>Microsoft Public 
License (Ms-PL)</a></dt>
-<dd><p>This is a free software license, compatible with version 3 of
-    the GNU GPL.  It is incompatible with version 2 of the GNU GPL
-    because of the conditions in sections 3(B) and 3(C).</p>
-
-<p>Please do not use this license for anything you write; there are
-  already well-known free software licenses that serve the same
-  purpose, such as the <a href="#apache2">Apache License version
-  2.0</a>, and we must all stand together to combat license
-  proliferation.  However, there is no reason to avoid using software
-  released under this license.</p></dd>
-
-
 <dt><a id="NCSA"
        href="http://www.otm.uiuc.edu/faculty/forms/opensource.asp";>
     NCSA/University of Illinois Open Source License</a></dt>
@@ -830,11 +817,19 @@
 </p></dd>
 
 
-<dt><a id="ms-rl" 
href="http://www.microsoft.com/resources/sharedsource/licensingbasics/reciprocallicense.mspx";>Microsoft
 Reciprocal License (Ms-RL)</a></dt>
-
+<dt><a id="ms-pl" 
href="http://www.microsoft.com/opensource/licenses.mspx#Ms-PL";>Microsoft Public 
License (Ms-PL)</a></dt>
 <dd><p>This is a free software license; it has a copyleft that is not
     strong, but incompatible with the GNU GPL.  We urge you not to use
-    the Ms-RL for this reason.</p></dd>
+    the Ms-PL for this reason.</p></dd>
+
+
+<dt><a id="ms-rl" 
href="http://www.microsoft.com/opensource/licenses.mspx#Ms-RL";>Microsoft 
Reciprocal License (Ms-RL)</a></dt>
+
+<dd><p>This is a free software license.  It's based on
+    the <a href="#ms-pl">Microsoft Public License</a>, and has an
+    additional clause to make the copyleft just a little bit stronger.
+    It's also incompatible with the GNU GPL, and we urge you not to
+    use the Ms-RL for this reason.</p></dd>
 
 
 <dt><a id="MPL" href="http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/MPL-1.1.html";>
@@ -1729,7 +1724,7 @@
   <p>
     Updated:
     <!-- timestamp start -->
-    $Date: 2009/01/22 15:57:24 $
+    $Date: 2009/02/11 16:46:23 $
     <!-- timestamp end -->
   </p>
 </div>