current OS license

[Charlton Purvis]

Hi, folks:

Although there continues to be an open source spirit surrounding the code
amid the launch of a MS Foundation, I'd like to ask for clarification re.
the license of the MS code as it stands now.

If for whatever reason a company like Autodesk (or I guess it would have to
be the Foundation) wanted to slap some kind of non-open source license on
the code, is it true that the current code we call MapServer in its current
state will always remain covered under the license below?  Basically I'm
trying to make sure that a shop can't somehow repossess something that was
originally OS thus preventing folks from using it like it's being used now.

Charlton

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