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Stallman Absolves Novell
A few days ago we linked the transcript of Richard Stallman's talk at the Tokyo GPLv3 meeting . Now bubulubugoth writes to point us to an analysis of what Stallman said in Tokyo. In particular, these quotes: "Microsoft has not given Novell a patent license, and thus, section 7 of the GPL version 2 does not come into play. Instead, Microsoft offered a patent license that is rather limited to Novell's customers alone." And, apparently resolving the conundrum of whether GPLv2 and GPLv3 licenses can be commingled: "There's no difficulty in having some programs in the system under GPL2 and other programs under GPL3."
Sometimes I really wish we could moderate stories too. Slap a -1 Troll or Flamebait on stuff like this one.
i ate crayons when i was a kid and now i have two braincells and the blue ones taste nicer
So tag it "flamebait"
To summarise the summary of the summary: people are a problem. ~ h2g2