Microsoft uses the Apache license

July 19, 2004

Microsoft bought Lookout, the small company that makes excellent Outlook search tool. Lookout uses a variation of the highly-regarded Lucene search engine to power its amazingly fast search.

After the acquisition, the app was upgraded so that the software agreement is with Microsoft instead of Lookout Software. So we now have the first bit of Microsoft software licensed under an Apache license. A milestone, of sorts.

Update: That bastard Michael pointed out that Joel had already noted this. Joel had assumed Microsoft wouldn't redistribute the app with this license, but it seems, given that they just sent out a version 1.2 update to all current users, that they've done so anyway.

Lookout's license text, rocking in MS Paint

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Posted July 20, 2004 09:17

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Posted July 21, 2004 13:50

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Posted July 24, 2004 10:13

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jm

Posted July 19, 2004 19:30

FYI — MS have been shipping GPL’d code since January of last year at least:

http://sourcefrog.net/weblog/2004/01/08#plapack

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