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byBlakey Rat ( 99501 ) writes:
Why are people obsessed over this? Does it matter? Either way, the code is GPL now, right?
bylbbros ( 900904 ) writes:
For some it matters as it was not a release out of good will (like some may have thought) or out of interoperability, but simply because they were forced to.
byBlakey Rat ( 99501 ) writes:
The two aren't mutually-exclusive. If they were intending to release it as GPL all along, maybe they were only in violation in the first place because their legal team moves slowly. There's not necessarily any conspiracy here.
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bylbbros ( 900904 ) writes:
I don't think there's a conspiracy at all. But the spin Microsoft put into this, compared to what the truth was, is annoying.
bysumdumass ( 711423 ) writes:
How do you know the spin wasn't the truth?
It's entirely possible that both realities are completely true and the length of time to get into compliance was simply legal delays ensuring they had a right to the code and that the code wouldn't move into other licensed code they had. Meanwhile, not producing the source code when you distribute something is something that is almost always violated. Even major distributions do it when they offer binary update services and don't provide the source code along side i
byarose ( 644256 ) writes:
That's not how legal works. You wait for legal instead of violating licenses just because they're slow. No, this was probably a calculated risk on their part. Not quite sure why exactly, but this is Microsoft so...
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