sourceWe have received a quite a number of requests from various organizations and individuals that wish to use our Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) content to build out their own secure development processes. We have put a lot of thought into these requests and how best to service them.
Up to this point, Microsoft has released SDL information using a license that did not allow for reproduction, inclusion or transfer of any part of our documentation or process without express written consent from Microsoft.
I am happy to announce that from this point forward, Microsoft will be making our publicly available SDL documentation and other SDL process content available to the development community under a Creative Commons license. Specifically, we will be using the license that specifies Attribution, Non-Commercial, Share Alike (cc by-nc-sa) terms.
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