Cool, I think...

[Douglas Roberts-2]

http://money.cnn.com/blogs/legalpad/index.html#116360365189479898

Is the Microsoft-Novell deal dead on arrival? The potentially historic
Microsoft-Novell
pact<http://money.cnn.com/2006/11/07/technology/microsoft_novell.reut/index.htm>announced
last week, whereby Microsoft would grant patent peace to users of
Novell's Suse Linux software in exchange for royalty payments paid by Novell
to Microsoft, will be dead by mid-March, promises Eben Moglen, the general
counsel of the Free Software Foundation (FSF). The FSF controls the license
that governs the distribution of Linux and many other key forms of free and
open-source software.

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[Marcus G. Daniels-3]

Douglas Roberts wrote:
> http://money.cnn.com/blogs/legalpad/index.html#116360365189479898
As far as I can tell from this article, Eben is just talking about the
introduction of the GPLv3, which doesn't necessarily have anything at
all to do with the license Mono and Novell choose to use for their projects.

It's unclear how many people will even opt to use the GPLv3 given that's
it drifted into a being an anti-DRM document and now whatever RMS
becomes upset about in the world.    Torvalds of course has been quite
critical of it.