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Getting grubby with ZFS

Getting grubby with ZFS

Posted Dec 8, 2010 12:05 UTC (Wed) by AlexHudson (subscriber, #41828)
In reply to: Getting grubby with ZFS by corbet
Parent article: Getting grubby with ZFS

Because the patent stuff was offered by a third party; Microsoft indemnified Novell's customers but Novell was not bound by any agreement with Microsoft.

If Novell had bought a license from Microsoft which covered their customers, that would have been covered by the GPLv2 language.


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