Microsoft consolidates Shared Source licenses
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As of today, Shared Source Initiative technologies will be simplified under a new three-license regimen, which includes The Permissive License (Ms-PL), The Community License (Ms-CL) and the Reference License (Ms-RL).
The Ms-PL allows users to view, modify and redistribute source code for non-commercial and/or commercial purposes. It also allows a developer to actually charge a licensing fee for modified code based on an Ms-PL-licensed application.
Microsoft announced today that eight new Visual Studio 2005 starter kits and the next Windows CE Bluetooth Wrapper would be offered under the Ms-PL.