Microsoft v TomTom: a GPLv3 wake-up call

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Apr 17, 2009 4:41 AM
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Microsoft's brawl with TomTom over FAT patents has been seized on by software-freedom advocates as a wake-up call for people to adopt GPLv3. Open-source developers can protect themselves, their customers and the cause of software freedom in general by switching code currently under GPLv2 to the updated GPLv3, the Software Freedom Law Center has said.

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