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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."
Sorry, man. Your last sentence makes no sense. Maybe your whole post doesn't make sense. Please say more, as I can't interpret your words to meaningful text. That is, explicate your position. Your minimal treatment doesn't help me.
Really, who cares? Stallman is a wanker anyway. GPL blah blah blah, this shit doesn't matter to 99.99% of the world, and you know what? They don't care.