Friday, July 6, 2007

Microsoft not bound by GPLv3

Microsoft cleared the air July 5 on <A HREF="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2155119,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594">its obligations to GNU General Public License Version 3 support,</A> declaring it will not provide support or updates for GPLv3 under the deal it penned in November with Novell to administer certificates for the Linux distribution.

Microsoft also said July 5 that its agreement with Novell, as well as those with Linux rivals Xandros and Linspire, were unaffected by the release June 29 of GPLv3 by the Free Software Foundation.

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