Was Microsoft violating the GPL before deciding to embrace it?

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Looks like there's more to the story of Microsoft's decision to contribute driver code to the Linux kernel under the General Public License. The Linux community member who alterted a Novell representative to the existence of Microsoft's standalone drivers says he did so after discovering that they mixed GPL-based and closed-source code in a manner he viewed as "an obvious violation of the license."

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View Full Article: Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog
 
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