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Novell could be out of the Linux businessNovell could be out of the Linux businessPosted Nov 3, 2006 19:57 UTC (Fri) by madscientist (subscriber, #16861)In reply to: Novell could be out of the Linux business by JoeBuck Parent article: Novell's press release on partnership with Microsoft
Probably, but we don't even have to wonder about the kernel, with its fragmented copyright ownership situation (yes, I know that any single owner has standing).
As much as RMS gets flak for pointing it out, a Linux distribution contains a significant amount of GNU code, and most if it is absolutely critical infrastructure (can you say "C runtime"? I knew you could!) Due to their copyright assignment policy, the Free Software Foundation almost certainly holds the copyright to more of any standard Linux distribution than any other single person or company, by any metric.
You can bet that the FSF and Eben Moglen will be keeping an extremely sharp eye on this and be ready to file legal paperwork the instant it's warranted.
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