Microsoft Public License goes open source.
Recently the Microsoft Permissive License, along with the Microsoft Community License were both submitted to the Open Source Initiative (OSI) to allow them to be fully supported as ‘Open Source’ licenses however these were both turned down for approval, mainly due to the fact that the names of licenses were misleading.
On the 12th October, after renaming the Microsoft Permissive License to Microsoft Public License and the Microsoft Community License to Microsoft Reciprocal License, as well as a few other minor changes, the OSI approved both of the licenses. This means that projects, such as IronRuby and IronPython, are now under these licenses officially open source.
A full round up can be found over on the OSI website.
Chris
