Novel and Microsoft

[Technomage]

On Friday 10 November 2006 07:45, Alan Dayley wrote:
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> Software Freedom Law Center granted confidential access to the
> Novell-Microsoft agreement contracts:
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> http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2168151/novells-opens-microsoft
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> "The SFLC has been offered cooperation by Novell sufficient to permit a
> confidential audit to determine whether the licence provisions of the
> GPL have been complied with," SFLC chairman Eben Moglen told vnunet.com.
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> Looks to my like Novell is trying to provide the FS community assurance
> that it is still a member in good standing.  It will be interesting to
> see how this all turns out.
>
> Alan

given what I've seen in their "nosrc" dirs on the mirrors lately, I am 
beginning to have my doubts (50 packages of which 42 are definitely GPL'ed. a 
violation of section 7 if I've ever seen one).