Is Legal Trouble Brewing for Microsoft and Novell?
13th Nov 2006, 15:37 GMT
The distaste and distrust of the Microsoft-Novell partnership announced last week among some free and open source software supporters has grown to include allegations the deal may violate the GNU General Public License, which governs Novell's Suse Linux operating system. The free and open source software community's largest legal figure, Columbia Law School Professor and Software Freedom Law Center Director Eben Moglen, has highlighted how the use of patent licensing from Microsoft may violate terms of the GPL and therefore nullify Novell's right to distribute the software. Free E-Mail News Alerts from ECT News Network Keep up with the latest breaking business and technology news from ECT News Network. Receive real-time alerts as stories break -- or a daily version dispatched once each day. Easily add or eliminate keywords and modify service right from your inbox. Target your news today!
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