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Re:VMWare Taken to Court Over GPL Violation by maxlybbert on Thursday March 05, 2015 @10:53PM (#9155491)
Since the comment you were responding to has been deleted, I'm not sure if my comment will clarify anything for you. But it is possible, so here goes:

> Wait, Microsoft is distributing and loading GPL'ed kernel modules for windows?

A few years ago, the Linux kernel project accepted several patches from Microsoft that were meant to make it easier to run Linux in a VM hosted on a Windows machine ( http://www.dwheeler.com/blog/2011/07/14/#microsoft-linux-aut... ).

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Re:VMWare Taken to Court Over GPL Violation by bonzini on Friday March 06, 2015 @07:28AM (#9156696)
Those are not GPL'ed kernel modules for Windows. As you said yourself, those are GPL'ed kernel modules for Linux.
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