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McAfee Issues Warning Over 'Ambiguous' Open Source Licenses

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InformationWeek; By Paul McDougall
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McAfee warned that license terms governing open source software "may result in unanticipated obligations regarding our products."

[This article puts it nicely, but one could interpret it differently: McAfee have discovered they are violating the GPL and are now trying to find a way to wiggle out of it. Another big company could red-handed pirating Free Software. I hope the media produces the outcry McAfee deserves.]

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