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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Microsoft fails to open source Windows 7 USB tool
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>> | A posting on Microsoft's Port 25 blog last
>> | week revealed that the company had failed
>> | to release the code of the Windows 7
>> | USB/DVD Download Tool. Microsoft had
>> | admitted that the tool contained code from
>> | a GPL licensed application, ImageMaster,
>> | which was hosted on Microsoft's CodePlex
>> | project hosting site. Peter Galli,
>> | Microsoft's Open Source Community Manager,
>> | said "While we worked extremely hard to
>> | try and get the code ready for release by
>> | today, we still need to test and localise
>> | it". The plan is now to release the code
>> | "in the next few weeks".
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>> http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Microsoft-fails-to-open-source-Windows-7-USB-tool-867103.html
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> In short, micoshaft has added a lot of snooping tools to the
> GPL'd code and now they can't release it until
> code is completely washed and sent through several rinse cycles.
>
> A quick check of the binary should then reveal all the functions
> micoshaft has removed, It would still mean they are not GPL
> compliant. Because they are still not releasing the GPL'd code
> as origintally distributed for which they broke the law and
> continue to break the law by not releasing the original unmodified code.
"Law"? Hehe. Microsoft never cared about this "Law" thing.
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