For Approval: Microsoft Permissive License

Sat Sep 29 10:14:53 UTC 2007

Matthew Flaschen wrote:
 Do you have evidence "Permissive License" has a significantly different
> meaning than "Academic License" in the FOSS community? If so, I am
> willing to discuss that with you.

In the open source community, most of these distinctions are only known 
to a small number of people.
However, the general public will make a better guess of the meaning of 
Permissive, and the term Academic is used by proprietary software 
vendors to imply a field of endeavour restriction on licences that do 
not permit redistribution. I would think Academic would be unsafe on 
any open source licence from Microsoft, as they are already strongly in 
to discounted "academic" proprietary licensing.
>> Matt Flaschen

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