[IronPython] License change?

[Raymond Hettinger]

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.