Comments on: Novell Confirms the Deal Was About “Intellectual Property” http://techrights.org/2007/05/09/novell-says-ok-to-ip/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Fri, 25 Nov 2016 09:41:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: Shane Coyle http://techrights.org/2007/05/09/novell-says-ok-to-ip/comment-page-1/#comment-634 Thu, 10 May 2007 00:19:59 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2007/05/09/novell-says-ok-to-ip/#comment-634 So, everything we’ve feared here has basically been confirmed, just great. Novell needs to immediately come forward with the details of what, exactly, they have agreed to license from MS.

One of the more disturbing aspects of the Microvell saga is the repeated question of the acceptability of Novell code and patch submissions since the deal, which I am even more concerned about since reading this:

The Novell-Microsoft agreement is about bridging the worlds of open source and proprietary software, and in order to build this bridge, we’ve had to do several unique things, including signing an intellectual property agreement that would let Novell’s engineers get a look at some of Microsoft’s proprietary code.

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