Today Novell made some changes to it's so called "Technology Assurance Program", and as part of that stating:
"Under the Novell and Microsoft patent cooperation agreement, when you buy any Novell products—whether Linux-based or proprietary—you receive a patent covenant not to sue from Microsoft. Also under this agreement, customers have unprecedented choice and flexibility through improved interoperability and manageability between Windows and SUSE Linux Enterprise.
Microsoft has extended its covenant to not sue users of Linux-based products from Novell to all GPL v3 users as soon as GPL v3 code is integrated into SUSE Linux Enterprise. This means that the patent protection Microsoft extends to Novell customers now covers every customer who uses any Linux-based software that Novell distributes under GPL v3."
Source: http://www.novell.com/licensing/ntap/.
Novell agrees with the FSF regarding M$ patents and GPLv3
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Novell agrees with the FSF regarding M$ patents and GPLv3
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