A great set of questions by Jacob Kaplan-Moss about the General Public License with some great answers in the comments…
Open source questions…
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Speaking of GPL (very vaguely), did you see this? http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/072009-microsoft-linux-source-code.html
@Matt – Microsoft usually get there in the end, they just fight it for a while…