[discuss] Reuters: Novell could be banned from selling Linux: group

Russell McOrmond russell at flora.ca
Tue Feb 13 09:57:24 EST 2007


Etienne Goyer wrote:
>>   Can you think of any other interpretation for Linus' objections to GPLv3?
> 
> Yes.  That the Corresponding Source clause of the GPLv3 is outside the
> scope of a *software* license, as encryption key are not source code.

   I, and the law that governs software licenses, disagree with you.

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