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The Free Software Foundation today released the final version of the new GNU General Public License, GPLv3. Novell welcomes and supports GPLv3 and we appreciate the collaborative process that led to its conclusion.

With the final release of GPLv3, we re-affirm Novell’s ability to include technologies licensed under GPLv2 or GPLv3 in SUSE Linux Enterprise, openSUSE, and other Novell offerings and to deliver these technologies to our customers.

We note that the language which grandfathered the Novell-Microsoft agreement from a key patent provision remains in the final version. All of this is good news for our customers who will continue to enjoy using the best engineered and most interoperable platform for mission-critical computing.

The terms of the final version of GPLv3 will allow our continued collaboration with Microsoft. We remain committed to that partnership, which we believe will help grow the Linux market and satisfy long-standing customer needs for interoperability in a mixed-source world. We look forward to providing the fruits of this to our customers and our fellow community members in accord with our previously outlined roadmap.

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