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Stallman Absolves Novell

Posted by kdawson on from the what-he-said dept.

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."

3 of 101 comments (clear)

  1. W00t. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yay. Hooray and all that stuff. And what, exactly does that mean for us, the average Slashdot consumer?

  2. Re:Shame on you Slashdot.. by Crayon+Kid · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sometimes I really wish we could moderate stories too. Slap a -1 Troll or Flamebait on stuff like this one.

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  3. Re:Shame on you Slashdot.. by Hope+Thelps · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Sometimes I really wish we could moderate stories too. Slap a -1 Troll or Flamebait on stuff like this one.

    So tag it "flamebait"
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