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by Sam Ramji on June 06, 2008 04:48pm
A number of people have alerted me in the last 24 hours that a Microsoft project called Sandcastle, located on Codeplex, used the Ms-PL and called itself “open source” yet never posted the source code.
This is unacceptable and represents a violation of Microsoft’s Open Source policy. I take it extremely seriously.
I have directed the project to be unpublished from Codeplex immediately, including removal of the project’s use of the Ms-PL. If the team chooses to publish the source code and follow Microsoft policy, then the project may be re-published in the future. If not, we will remove all references to Sandcastle from Codeplex.
I apologize to the OSI on behalf of Microsoft for this mistake.
We are strengthening our controls on Codeplex projects and the governance process that we use for Microsoft-led external projects to ensure that this type of error does not happen again.
Our policy regarding use of the term Open Source is clear: Open Source refers to projects using OSI-approved licenses.