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Patent threats?!Patent threats?!Posted Jul 20, 2009 23:23 UTC (Mon) by SEMW (guest, #52697)In reply to: Patent threats?! by Max.Hyre Parent article: Microsoft contributes Hyper-V drivers to the kernel
>> [...] 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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