Moglen: Microsoft-Novell raises GPL questions
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| "If you make an agreement which requires you to pay a royalty to anybody
| for the right to distribute GPL software, you may not distribute it
| under the GPL," Moglen told CNET News.com Thursday. Section 7 of the
| GPL "requires that you have, and pass along to everybody, the right
| to distribute software freely and without additional permission."
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| "I and my firm don't take comfort from statement from Microsoft that
| they won't sue programmers as long as they don't get paid," Moglen
| said. "We represent developers of free and open-source software. If
| Microsoft or anyone else attempts to sue our clients for doing what
| they do to create software, because they're being paid for it, then
| the people doing that will be sorry. We protect our clients."
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