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Microsoft to subborn subversion of the Apache Software Foundation (ars technica)

Microsoft to subborn subversion of the Apache Software Foundation (ars technica)

Posted Jul 25, 2008 23:49 UTC (Fri) by smitty_one_each (subscriber, #28989)
In reply to: Microsoft to subborn subversion of the Apache Software Foundation (ars technica) by vblum
Parent article: Microsoft to sponsor the Apache Software Foundation (ars technica)

>The important bit is that GPL software is suddenly indemnified from patent lawsuits if the
implement MS's "open" protocols.

I might be missing something, but isn't the Apache license, in spirit, much closer to BSD than
GPL?
Or are you making a deeper point about somehow making it harder to run GPL'd software atop
Apache?


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