"Microsoft and Novell built a bridge between the worlds of proprietary and open-source software in order to solve problems that real customers care about, while respecting the terms of the GPLv2 license," Horacio Gutierrez , Microsoft's vice president, intellectual property and licensing, said in a statement. "We note that the draft of the GPLv3 does not tear down the bridge Microsoft and Novell have built for their customers. It is unfortunate, however, that the FSF is attempting to use the GPLv3 to prevent future collaboration among industry leaders to benefit customers."
"We will continue to distribute Linux," Novell spokesman Bruce Lowry wrote in an official blog. "Nothing in this new draft of GPL3 inhibits Novell's ability to include GPL3 technologies in SUSE Linux Enterprise, openSUSE, and other Novell open source offerings, now and in the future."
Novell wouldn't comment specifically on the provisions in the draft.
"We are firmly committed to continuing the partnership with Microsoft and, as we always have, fully complying with the terms of the licenses for the software that we ship, including software licensed under GPL3," the spokesman wrote. "If the final version of the GPL3 does potentially impact the agreement we have with Microsoft, we'll address that with Microsoft."
The full text of the license and a rationale for the changes is available on the FSF's GPLv3 Web site.
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