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Re:VMware GPL Enforcement Suit in Germany Continues by joosters on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @03:44PM (#10466842)
Amazon don't distribute any of their Xen-derived code, so they don't have to give the source out either.

This is something that the GPL version 3 tried to fix.

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Re:VMware GPL Enforcement Suit in Germany Continues by wolfgke on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @03:56PM (#10466914) 

  > Amazon don't distribute any of their Xen-derived code, 
  > so they don't have to give the source out either.
  >
  > This is something that the GPL version 3 tried to fix.
This is something the AGPL (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affero_General_Public_License) tried to fix.
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Re:VMware GPL Enforcement Suit in Germany Continues by Tyr42 on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @04:40PM (#10467242)
Well, it's never been tested, and I think that companies are not sure if it's safe to use it ever. I don't exactly know how much of the stack you have to provide the source for.
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Re:VMware GPL Enforcement Suit in Germany Continues by serge2k on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @04:11PM (#10467031)
and as a result it's pretty much forbidden at many places.
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Re:VMware GPL Enforcement Suit in Germany Continues by uxcn on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @05:01PM (#10467376)
GPLv3 has to do with locking hardware (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization), which Amazon is still vehemently opposed to for obvious reasons.
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