Stallman finally comments on Novell/Microsoft patent deal
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| What has happened is, Microsoft has not given Novell a patent
| license, and thus, section 7 of GPL version 2 does not come into
| play," he said. "Instead, Microsoft offered a patent licence that
| is rather limited to Novell's customers alone."
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| "It turns out that perhaps it's a good thing that Microsoft did
| this now, because we discovered that the text we had written for
| GPL version 3 would not have blocked this, but it's not too late
| and we're going to make sure that when GPL version 3 really comes
| out it will block such deals," he added.
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