Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 28th Jul 2009 21:33 UTC
"Microsoft violated the GPLv2 when it distributed its Hyper-V Linux Integration Components without providing source code, says the Software Freedom Law Center. The violation was rectified when Microsoft contributed more than 20,000 lines of source code to the Linux community last week. The drivers are designed to improve the performance of the Linux operating system when it is virtualized on the Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V hypervisor-based virtualization system."
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Member since:2005-07-24
If you want to use someone else's code, whether that code is open source, GPL, BSD, Apache, or proprietary, you need to follow the rules for doing so. If you break the rules, you are infringing...
True. But please condense all that down to something as catchy and quotable as "GPL is cancer".
And, of course, only GPL comes right out talking about giving away your source code.
Edited 2009-07-28 23:01 UTC
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2006-01-11
On the contrary, any open source license can be violated. If you want to use someone else's code, whether that code is open source, GPL, BSD, Apache, or proprietary, you need to follow the rules for doing so. If you break the rules, you are infringing copyright. Large companies have legal staffs to deal with these matters.
GPLv2 is a shorter, simpler license than many of the others (e.g. Mozilla's license, or Apache's). It's not that hard.