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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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.
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.