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Microsoft's proclamation on GPLv3Microsoft's proclamation on GPLv3Posted Jul 6, 2007 15:40 UTC (Fri) by dmantione (guest, #4640)Parent article: Microsoft's proclamation on GPLv3
That was to be expected. As the FSF itself says, the GPL is a simple
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Microsoft's proclamation on GPLv3 Posted Jul 6, 2007 19:35 UTC (Fri) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625) [Link] And Napster is still up, because they don't actually transfer copyrighted material, so the copyright holders can't touch them.
Microsoft's proclamation on GPLv3 Posted Jul 6, 2007 19:43 UTC (Fri) by dmantione (guest, #4640) [Link] You need permission of the copyright holder for multiplication of worksor making them public. Napster did the second.
Microsoft's proclamation on GPLv3 Posted Jul 6, 2007 20:40 UTC (Fri) by kripkenstein (subscriber, #43281) [Link] "You need permission of the copyright holder for multiplication of worksor making them public. Napster did the second."
It isn't very simple: There is 'making them public', and there is 'facilitating copyright circumvention', such as hosting a site with links, and so forth. It isn't obviously clear how the law will fall on this matter. Fact is, Microsoft are doing more than facilitating distribution; they are initiating it (giving out coupons).
The fact that Microsoft is saying that the coupons are no longer useful for GPL3 code should indicate to us that Microsoft takes this matter very seriously, which means that the FSF might be right.
Time will tell.
Microsoft's proclamation on GPLv3 Posted Jul 6, 2007 20:53 UTC (Fri) by hingo (guest, #14792) [Link] I'm wondering if we have actually managed to score a point against Microsoft in it's own game: FUD? As you state, there is no way Microsoft could be seen as bound by the GPL3, however for all the shouting that has been going on in Groklaw and other places, and the coupons having no expiration date and everything, it seems that MS has made the decision to give up and not argue against it. In a way it's a victory altough not the one most people think. (I think most people seem to really believe MS is somehow distributing Linux and bound by the GPL and soon by GPL3.)
Microsoft's proclamation on GPLv3 Posted Jul 9, 2007 15:40 UTC (Mon) by dark (subscriber, #8483) [Link] And a very effective tactic it was, too. The details of the Novell-Microsoft agreement are secret. The text of the vouchers is secret. Microsoft wants to keep these secrets, so it can't effectively rebut speculation about the effect of this arrangement.
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