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Patent threats?!Patent threats?!Posted Jul 20, 2009 21:53 UTC (Mon) by kragil (subscriber, #34373)In reply to: Patent threats?! by davi Parent article: Microsoft contributes Hyper-V drivers to the kernel
The Slashdot Sam Ramji says:
Our use of the GPLv2 license, as requested by the Linux community, means we will not charge a royalty or assert any patents covering the driver code we are contributing.
Sam
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1308785&cid=...
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Patent threats?! Posted Jul 20, 2009 22:32 UTC (Mon) by Max.Hyre (subscriber, #1054) [Link] [...] we will not charge a royalty or assert any patentsCan I have that in writing, please?
Patent threats?! Posted Jul 20, 2009 23:23 UTC (Mon) by SEMW (guest, #52697) [Link]
>> [...] we will not charge a royalty or assert any patents
> Can I have that in writing, please?
Sure, here you go: www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html .
Royalties are obvious. The implicit patent license given by releasing code under GPL 2 is less so, but is discussed in the thread above.
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