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Patent license?

Patent license?

Posted Jul 20, 2009 16:50 UTC (Mon) by kripkenstein (subscriber, #43281)
Parent article: Microsoft contributes Hyper-V drivers to the kernel

IANAL, but I presume this means that Microsoft is licensing its relevant patents, as per the GPL2 patent clause. So if Microsoft has any patents on Hyper-V, those might not be an issue any more.

Nice to have I guess.


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