Novel and Microsoft

Ray Cantwell hacktavist at cox.net
Sun Nov 12 10:12:15 MST 2006


Craig White wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 07:45 -0700, 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
>>
>> - --[from the article]--
>> "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.
>> - --[end quote]--
>>
>> 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.
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> FYI - just released
>
> http://news.samba.org/announcements/team_to_novell/
>
> Craig
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Has anyone heard if Linus or RMS has made any kind of statement on this 
issue?
Ray


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