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Is use of the GPL really decreasing?
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| Is it reasonable to raise the question "does X still matter?" when the X in
| question is in use among nearly two-thirds of the target users under
| discussion?
|
| [...]
|
| Tracking down the real numbers isn't difficult though and they show that the
| use of the GPL isn't decreasing; there may be more and more and projects
| using open source licences these days, lessening the percentages, but the GPL
| numbers are only increasing.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/26920/1090/
Recent:
SFLC: Microsoft violated the GPL
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| Microsoft violated the General Public License v2 (GPLv2) when it distributed
| its Hyper-V Linux Integration Components (LinuxIC) without providing source
| code, says the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC).
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| The violation was rectified when Microsoft contributed more than 20,000 lines
| of source code to the Linux community last week. The drivers are designed to
| improve the performance of the Linux operating system when it is virtualized
| on the Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V hypervisor-based virtualization system.
|
| [...]
|
| "It seems to me that Sam [Ramji] is likely correct when he says that talk
| inside Microsoft about releasing the source was under way before the Linux
| developers began their enforcement effort," said Bradley Kuhn, a policy
| analyst and tech director at the SFLC.
|
| "However, that talk doesn't mean that there wasn't a problem. As soon as one
| distributes the binaries of a GPL'd work, one must provide the source for
| those binaries, so Microsoft's delay in this regard was a GPL violation.
|
| "The important thing to note from a perspective of freedom is that this
| software, whether it is released properly under the GPL or kept proprietary
| in violation of the GPL, is a piece of software designed to convince people
| to give up free virtualization platforms like Xen and KVM, and [to] use
| Microsoft's virtualization technology instead," Kuhn added.
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http://www.sdtimes.com/content/article.aspx?ArticleID=33641
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