Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on March 30, 2007 06:18 AM
As projects change licenses Novell will have to accept new license at current day and alter to suit the new license if they want to submit.
If a large number of projects take it on Novell and Microsoft will be effected. People forget that Microsoft also ships GPL works. The talk between Novell and Microsoft might get very interesting to say the least. If Novell is fully open source they might not have any need to license Microsoft patents for any reason. Microsoft on the other hand will still need Novell patents on there closed source. So it might be come a one way payment.
GPLv3 most likely has teeth in Novell favor. So I don't see Novell fighting over it.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 30, 2007 06:18 AMIf a large number of projects take it on Novell and Microsoft will be effected. People forget that Microsoft also ships GPL works. The talk between Novell and Microsoft might get very interesting to say the least. If Novell is fully open source they might not have any need to license Microsoft patents for any reason. Microsoft on the other hand will still need Novell patents on there closed source. So it might be come a one way payment.
GPLv3 most likely has teeth in Novell favor. So I don't see Novell fighting over it.
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