--- dandantheitman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Orlowski - the FSF lawyer has publically stated that the > latest > release of the GPL is designed to break the Novell / Microsoft deal. > > Now I love open source as much as the next, and I am a big fan of > Novell and their products but when did the Free Software Foundation > decide that it was no longer about protecting the developers but > 'sticking' it to Microsoft. > > Am I wrong on this one guys ?
Actually, to me the 'patent' issue seems correct. There was another open source licence that had a similar arrangement: If you hold patents on something and include it in our thing, than you give everyone permission to use your patented whatever with our thing free of charge. So the only real difference here is that distributions is explicitely mentioned. The rest of the article reads to me: "Oh wow. We didn't notice earlier that our new licence will protect us against this as well." No? Dirk.
