cups VS opensource.microsoft.com

You forgot to change the license and copyright it ;>

It happened to their cups fork too, btw.

I was talking not only about this specific instance of it happening, but Microsoft had similar mistakes throughout the past 6 months. Here's the one from CUPS, a Linux printing library:

https://github.com/microsoft/cups/commit/ad69bcc78bdea3fea3f...

It used to be Apache License, then it became "MIT License (c) Microsoft Corporation". Thanks to the attention that this thread got, it has now been fixed:

https://github.com/microsoft/cups/commit/3859d70160010c61fd7...

But that source code was online with the wrong license for more than 6 months. Imagine if you had hosted Windows source code with a misattributed MIT license for 6 months... They would also bring out the pitchforks ;) Or even worse: well-paid lawyers.

The egregious cups change Apache to MIT commit.

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Jesse what the fuck are you on about? Open source is pretty neat but you know microsoft has a open source page. If you are gonna say but linux blah blah blah microsoft is a platinum linux foundation member

M$ also has a page with some of their projects and contributions. https://opensource.microsoft.com/

Microsoft has come a really long way in expanding their platform out. They open sourced PowerShell and .NET are actively promoting others ( https://opensource.microsoft.com ) and have full Linux cloud support on Azure.

Microsoft themselves is one of the biggest open source contributors in the world. They've moved big projects like PowerShell to be completely open source. They even own GitHub and are one of the top Linux contributors. https://opensource.microsoft.com

It's ok, the commit is enough