does Microsoft hold copyright to any GPL code? [LWN.net]

does Microsoft hold copyright to any GPL code?

Posted Mar 21, 2018 0:05 UTC (Wed) by pizza (subscriber, #46)
In reply to: does Microsoft hold copyright to any GPL code? by atai
Parent article: Six more companies adopt GPLv3 termination language

If nothing else, their contributions to the Linux kernel are under GPLv2.

(And the very fact that Microsoft has contributed code to the Linux kernel is still somewhat mind-boggling..)

does Microsoft hold copyright to any GPL code?

Posted Mar 21, 2018 13:18 UTC (Wed) by ledow (guest, #11753) [Link]

The Microsoft monopoly started to have to back off in recent years.

Otherwise Office on Android would never be a thing at all.

The days of them enforcing their browser, their office suite, their OS, etc. on everyone are waning. Shown by the fact that they have had to give away Windows 10, and Office is their biggest money spinner (along with their cloud offerings).

If they hadn't got on board with the virtual-machine support, etc. then people would be running Linux hypervisors with Windows VMs, instead of the other way around, and that way just ends in tears for them.

SQL Server for Linux, shell scripting on Windows, etc. are just further symptoms of the same phenomenon (somewhat half-hearted in some cases, but they're obviously testing the water).