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Microsoft bans open source software from the Windows Marketplace (thinq.co.uk)
3 points by ghalfacree 5602 days ago
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The arty assumes that open source means share-alike, ignoring the existence of open-source licenses like BSD, Apache, &c, which do not contradict article 5.

Wildeboer's blog post, which this story is based on, is discussed at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2226260

As undoubtedly other people have mentioned: they did not ban all open source. They banned GPLv3 and related licenses. (although it's not mentioned in TFA, I think AGPL also is not allowed. Would make sense, since I can just relicense any code under the AGPL.)