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Microsoft Takes Responsibility For GPL Violation

Posted by Soulskill on from the owning-up dept.

An anonymous reader writes with an update to the news we discussed last weekend that a Windows 7 utility seemed to contain GPL code: "Microsoft has confirmed that the Windows 7 USB/DVD tool did, in fact, use GPL code, and they have agreed to release the tool's source code under the terms of GPLv2. In a statement, Microsoft said creation of the tool had been contracted out to a third party and apologized for not noticing the GPL code during a code review."

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  1. Re:Microsoft acting responsibly? by HiThere · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Mine too. A few more thousand instances of them acting legally, and a few years of them not acting illegally and I might start thinking of them as not much worse than most mega-corporations.

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    I think we've pushed this "anyone can grow up to be president" thing too far.