“”The GPL does not permit mixing of closed and open source
parts, so this was an obvious violation of the license.“”Rather than creating noise, my goal was to resolve the
problem, so I turned to (Linux Driver Project head) Greg
Kroah-Hartman. Since Novell has a (too) close association with
Microsoft, my expectation was that Greg could prod the right people
to get the issue resolved.”Mr. Hemminger’s article on the alleged GPL violation was
published on LT earlier this week,
Congratulations
Microsoft (The real reason why…?)(Jul 20, 2009)
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