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pufuwozu on Oct 24, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: What do you think of F#?

I have to point out that F# is licensed under the Microsoft Research Shared Source License Agreement, which isn't an approved OSI license.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/antr/vrr/vrr/l...

They had plans to change to a MS-PL (OSI approved) license but still hasn't happened after 2 years.

On a more practical side, the current license isn't bad, just obscure.

jdh30 on Nov 5, 2010 [–]

F# was just released under to OSI-approved Apache open source license.

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