Comment Re:Did any of you actually believe they would be ? (Score 2, Insightful) 266
Please keep up at the back.
The license will apply to GPL v3 licensed components of (say) Linux (like the GNU utils or tools) that will be caused to be conveyed by Microsoft because they issued these coupons that don't have a expiry date. However that gives people like Novell the choice of either forking and duplicating a lot of work on keeping the GPL v2 bugfixed and working. Or distributing the newer GPL v3 components that everyone else is using.
It doesn't apply to current GPL v2 software.
The GPL v3 distribution license will apply to distributed and MSFT will be dragged into this because they are paying someone else to distrbute the bits. Eben Moglen and his collegues are not idiots (strangely enough)
The license will apply to GPL v3 licensed components of (say) Linux (like the GNU utils or tools) that will be caused to be conveyed by Microsoft because they issued these coupons that don't have a expiry date. However that gives people like Novell the choice of either forking and duplicating a lot of work on keeping the GPL v2 bugfixed and working. Or distributing the newer GPL v3 components that everyone else is using.
It doesn't apply to current GPL v2 software.
The GPL v3 distribution license will apply to distributed and MSFT will be dragged into this because they are paying someone else to distrbute the bits. Eben Moglen and his collegues are not idiots (strangely enough)
