pulling its “Sandcastle” documentation compiler from its CodePlex repository site for failure to comply with Open Source Initiative terms and conditions,
Office 2007 Sale, Microsoft is ready to try releasing “Sandcastle” again under one of its OSI-approved licenses. Ramji,
Office Standard 2007 Key, head of Microsoft’s open source and Linux team,
Office 2010 Standard 64bit, posted a blog entry updating readers on the Sandcastle matter. Ramji also noted that because of the Sandcastle incident,
Office 2010 Professional 64 Bit, Microsoft had reviewed other projects on CodePlex and had found unspecified other cases where source was not shared as was required under the Microsoft Permissive License (MS-PL). In his July 2 blog post,
Microsoft Office Pro Plus, Ramji noted that Microsoft has: other cases where Microsoft-led projects had been licensed under the Ms-PL but hadn’t shared the source. have also been unpublished and will go through the same review process. “ said that Microsoft was set to repost Sandcastle to CodePlex immediately: am very pleased to announce that the Microsoft SandCastle project team has reconfirmed its strong support for the Ms-PL is preparing to release all source code for the Sandcastle project immediately. was a non-trivial effort and I applaud them for it. think these actions demonstrate Microsoft’s desire to abide by the OSI’s Open Source Definition with regard to source code when releasing open source projects on CodePlex.” ordered the Sandcastle project removed from CodePlex and issued a formal apology to the OSI in early June because of the team’s failure to release the actual source code.