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Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 20:57:50 +0200
From: Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de>
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Frank J. Lhota wrote:
> Michael Bode wrote:
>> Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de> writes:
>>> Consider a few sheets of
>>> paper landing on your desk saying, this is a part of the NT kernel.
>>> This part of the NT kernel source, as the header clearly indicates,
>>> is GPLed. Would you believe it?
>>
>> If I had downloaded it myself from
>> https://gnu.microsoft.com/free_software/windows_nt/src/ ?
> 
> Folks, Georg was only kidding.

Well, not really. 

> We will have to wait a *long* time to see 
> "gnu" and "Microsoft" in the same URL.

Though,
http://www.microsoft.com/spain/sharedsource/Articles/GNU.mspx

>From the XEN laboratory at U of Cambridge:
"A port of Windows XP was developed for an earlier version of Xen,
but is not available for release due to licence restrictions."

Seems to me a word with those whose software you are using is
always a way. I'd prefer this to arguing about license headers,
and I guess that most compiler shops will prefer a simple, quiet,
reasonable deal, too.
 Wouldn't they know what software production is about?