The Windows API Code Pack [0] is a collection of C# utilities for applications built on Windows: shell utilities, wrappers around file open/save dialogs, etc. It looks like development stopped back in 2014, but it's still really useful and gets ~42 downloads/day according to NuGet [1].

Unfortunately the original license page linked from the directory (a code.msdn.microsoft.com address) no longer resolves [2]. User aybe on GitHub, who now maintains the NuGet packages, rescued a copy from the Internet Archive, which reveals a custom, Microsoft-specific license [3].

My question: now that .NET is embracing OSS, would it be possible to update this project's license to something more standard? .NET Core [4] is dual-licensed under MIT and Apache2, for example.

[0] https://github.com/aybe/Windows-API-Code-Pack-1.1

[1] https://www.nuget.org/packages/WindowsAPICodePack-Shell/

[2] http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/WindowsAPICodePack/Project/License.aspx

[3] https://github.com/aybe/Windows-API-Code-Pack-1.1/blob/master/LICENCE

[4] https://github.com/dotnet/core