[Fedora-legal-list] Fedora and MS-PL (Dynamic Language Runtime)

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 08/16/2009 08:15 AM, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> On 08/15/2009 06:57 PM, Jimmy Schementi wrote:
>> For what it's worth, IronRuby, IronPython, and the DLR are licensed under the "Microsoft Public License", which is OSI approved:
>> http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ms-pl.html
>>
>> IronRuby is not associated with the "Microsoft Shared Source License".
> 
> Yes, I do understand that part. :) I was simply correcting the point
> that the MS Shared Source License was in any way acceptable for Fedora
> (it is not).
> 
> The MS Public License is acceptable for Fedora, Free but GPL
> incompatible. I'm adding it to the table now.

Can you let me know why it is GPL incompatible?

Rahul