Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Michael Tiemann <tiemann AT redhat.com>]

On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 18:47 +0000, Emerson Clarke wrote:
> Dana,
> 
> Thanks, i was actually looking at the microsoft licenses this morning.
>  But as you suggested, they do not go down well with the open source
> community.

The problem with the Microsoft licenses is not that they come from
Microsoft.  It's that Microsoft has not submitted the licenses to the
Open Source Initiative's license approval process, so they have not be
discussed, so they cannot be approved by the OSI board, and therefore
they are not OSI-approved licenses.  If and when Microsoft submits a
license to the process, they will get the same fair hearing that any
other submission would receive, and the invitation to do so remains
open.  Until then, the open source community (or at least this open
source community member) will take a wait-and-see approach.

Michael Tiemann
President, Open Source Initiative