Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 19th Nov 2001 19:44 UTC
Original OSNews Interviews Today, OSNews features an interview with Zac Woodall, software design Engineer at Office Data and Developer Services at Microsoft Corporation. Zac, who is also a frequent OSNews reader, talks about the new Office, .NET, WindowsXP, NTFS and how it compares to BFS filesystem, the GPL & open source movement and much more.
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Re: GPL comments are completely uninformed
by ealm on Mon 19th Nov 2001 21:58 UTC

Can you tell enlighten us on the subject then?
AFAIK the problem here isn't about rights of the code owner - the problem is that when your commercially licensed code gets too influenced by GPL code some of it might belong to the author of the GPL code.
And if I understand Zac right MS has got this policy on GPL to make sure no-one can claim that the code inherits parts of their GPL licensed code.