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News about gpl

• Multiple consumer electronics companies hit with GPL lawsuit

  Best Buy, Samsung and 12 others violate GPLv2, an open source law firm charges

• Repentant Microsoft re-issues Windows 7 tool as open-source

  Revises netbook upgrade tool after admitting it copied code

• Lawsuit alleges Palm Pre violates copyright

  The Palm Pre is using PDF technology without proper licensing, Artifex alleges

• Microsoft: Win7 tool includes GPL code; software will go open source

  The Download Tool is free and was made available to users to create bootable USB drives or DVD backup media from the electronic editions of ...

• Microsoft yanks Windows 7 tool over open-source code swipe

  Blogger Rafael Rivera accuses Microsoft of lifting open-source code for netbook upgrade utility

• Engineer: Microsoft violated GPL before Linux code release

  Vyatta's Stephen Hemminger claims that Hyper-V Linux drivers had to be released for compliance with the open-source license

Features about gpl

• Does GPL still matter?

  As open source gets more commercial, GPL's idealism is overridden by developers' business needs

• Microsoft's Linux madness has a method

  Linux alignment helps cloud, virtualization efforts

• Microsoft/Linux milestones

  Microsoft has had a checkered past with both Linux and its open source GPL licensing structure