Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 6th Jul 2007 11:05 UTC, submitted by WillM
Microsoft cleared the air July 5 on its obligations to GNU General Public License Version 3 support, declaring it will not provide support or updates for GPLv3 under the deal it penned in November with Novell to administer certificates for the Linux distribution. Microsoft also said July 5 that its agreement with Novell, as well as those with Linux rivals Xandros and Linspire, were unaffected by the release June 29 of GPLv3 by the Free Software Foundation.
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"In order to do that you will need to understand what is actually happening rather than make inaccurate comments/assumptions and then draw [inaccurate] conclusions from them."
They are conveying them as I pointed out in another post. That is not distribution, as the GPL considers distribution giving the code. The vouchers are conveying them. No strawman here, as you will see when you read my other posts. There is a difference between conveying and distribution, is what I was trying to clear up. MS is still not distributing Linux, though they are conveying it under Chapter 11 of the GPL v3. I am well aware of the whole deal between Novell and MS.
That said maybe we will finally get the GPL proven in court, which will put a lot of questions to rest.