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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2007-02-17
Yes, but the coupon is worthless. You can't actually do anything at all with just a kernel. GNU/Linux is non-functional without the GNU parts ... and the GNU parts are licensed now under GPL v3.
Correct ... Microsoft themselves have to do that. Microsoft have done it by propogating coupons that have enabled some people to obtain some code that is licensed under GPL v3.
No, not at all. AFAIK, if software was released by an author under "GPL v2 or later", and than later a "GPL v3" shows up, then the author decides if the software is now licensed under GPL v2 or GPL v3. In the case of GNU software, the FSF have decided that it is now licensed under GPL v3.
This is the law, AFAIK. The authors/copyright holders decide how their software is licensed ... no-one else.