Windows 7 tool gets GPL v2 makeover
Open source violation was just a bad dream
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Microsoft reposted its Windows 7 download tool online yesterday, after yanking it off the internet last month when it coughed to violating a series of GNU General Public Licence (GPL) terms.
In November Microsoft called the violation a mistake, and while the code had been supplied by a third party, it took responsibility for not having caught the infringement during its own code review process. Since then, it's been making changes to the tool.
And, as of yesterday, the tweaked version has been made available under the GPL v2.
Microsoft's open source community liaison officer manager Peter Galli made the announcement to TechNet subscribers on Wednesday.
"The testing and localisation took longer than we expected, but the project is now hosted on CodePlex.com, Microsoft's Open Source software project hosting repository," he said.
Galli added that the altered version of the Windows 7 download tool meant that getting the firm's latest operating system onto a netbook would be slightly more cumbersome.
The "install involves additional steps," said Galli. Microsoft had previously knitted together various executable files into the tool. ®
COMMENTS
You can do it without this tool anyway
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/howtos/how_to_install_windows_7_beta_a_usb_key
Hardly rocket science..........
diff?
So they couldn't remove the GPL code and had to rerelease it under GPLv2...but they had to make changes before doing so. Anyone got a copy of both versions and some time on your hands? It'd be interesting to know what MS didn't want GPL'ed -- for purely academic reasons, of course.
Hmmm
While its nice they have released it, technically they also need to release the source to the original, before all this 'testing and localisation' took place... A look at not meant to be released code would be very interesting...
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