Novell and GPLv3: Let the Beatings Begin!

Posted by gsh on Feb 13, 2007 11:07 AM EDT
MadPenguin.org; By Matt Hartley
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Unless you live in a vacuum, you must’ve heard the talk about Novell finding itself under the Free Software Foundation's microscope. What's interesting is that it looks like under the current GPLv2 (GPL2) guidelines, Novell hasn’t done anything wrong. So, what's all the concern about then? Simple, it's called GPLv3 (GPL3).

Novell Clear, But for How Long? In many respects, I feel for Novell on this one. Even though I believe that the deal with Microsoft regarding patents was little more than corporate covering, the fact remains that Novell did what they felt was needed to keep itself from being litigated into oblivion.

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