[dba-Tech] Does Microsoft Have the Best App Store for Open Source Developers?

Arthur Fuller fuller.artful at gmail.com
Sun Jan 27 12:05:32 CST 2013


This from slashdot...

*"Microsoft seems to have been in combat against the GNU GPL throughout the
history of free and open source software. But that may be changing. They
have recently updated the terms of use for software developers in their
Windows Phone app store to allowany OSI-approved open source license — even
the GPL. They include extraordinarily broad language that gives the open
source license priority over their own license terms, saying: 'If your
Application or In-App Product includes FOSS, your license terms may
conflict with the limitations set forth in Section 3 of the Standard
Application License Terms, but only to the extent required by the FOSS that
you use.' Could it be that the most open source friendly app
stores<http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source-software/how-make-app-stores-open-source-friendly-211511>
will
be the ones run my Microsoft?"*
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