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Posted in GPL, Microsoft, Vista 7, Windows at 4:26 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Summary: GPLv2-licensed code finds its way into Vista 7, based on one source
JUST months after Microsoft’s last GPL violation (namely Hyper-V [1, 2, 3]) it allegedly gets caught lifting GPL-licensed source code from its anti-GPL site and onto Vista 7, assuming the allegations out there are true.
=> 1 | 2 | 3 | ↺ caught lifting GPL-licensed source code | anti-GPL site | ↺ Vista 7 | ↺ allegations
While poking through the UDF-related internals of the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool, I had a weird feeling there was just wayyyyyyyyy too much code in there for such a simple tool. A simple search of some method names and properties, gleaned from Reflector’s output, revealed the source code was obviously lifted from the CodePlex-hosted (yikes) GPLv2-licensed ImageMaster project. (The author of the code was not contacted by Microsoft.)
Microsoft will probably attempt to save face very shortly. █
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