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A few weeks ago we reviewed the case of the Microsoft Sandcastle help file builder. At the time, you may recall, the project had been removed from Microsoft's CodePlex site because of a discrepancy between license and action: the license was the open-source MSPL, but the source code was nowhere to be found.

There was a bit of a kerfluffle over at Microsoft's CodePlex site last week. It seems that an internal Microsoft project, Sandcastle (a documentation compiler for .NET) was published, ostensibly under the Ms-PL, without including source code. Microsoft's open source honcho Sam Ramji found out about this, apologized to the open source community, and had the project pulled. But will the story end there?