From: Uma Geller <umageller@...>
Date: 2007-08-03T16:21:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Groklaw says "Watch out, Ruby!"

Actually, there are many differences between the MS-PL
and the *real* open source licenses approved by OSI,
as pj@groklaw has pointed out in further detail

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070730120109643

Would you want to ellaborate more on this ?
Hopefully the dialog will result in Microsoft moving closer to
what open source really stands for.

Regardless of the outcome, thanks John for your outstanding
work reaching out to the community.


On 30/07/07, John Lam (CLR) <jflam@microsoft.com> wrote:
> > I'm sure you're right, I can't see many technical reasons not to use the
> > standard implementation.  However, John Lam is specifically asking for
> > contributions to the IronRuby stdlib.  I don't know what assignments
> > you'd have to make to get them accepted, and I haven't seen it discussed
> > anywhere.  John, are you reading?  Can you give us a steer on this?
>
> There are quite a few stdlib libraries that are implemented in C - those are the ones that we need help with. We're making good progress on the built-in types (another dev on our team just checked in a nearly complete implementation for Hash yesterday).
>
> As for assignments, we will have a standard contributor agreement that will assert that you have the legal right to contribute the code that you are submitting, as well as a copyright assignment. This is a very standard process in open source projects (see Apache's contributor agreement here: http://apache.org/licenses/icla.txt).
>
> Thanks,
> -John
>
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Uma Geller
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