• Microsoft swipes open source code

    Posted on November 8, 2009 at 03:13 CST by • Comment in the Forums

    It seems that somebody inside Microsoft stole and re-used open source programming code for the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool – the program available when you buy Windows 7 via the Microsoft Store that allows you to put the Win7 installer on a USB drive.

    Rafael Rivera discovered the apparent plagiarism while picking through the program. He blogs:

    A simple search of some method names and properties, gleaned from Reflector’s output, revealed the source code was obviously lifted from the CodePlex-hosted (yikes) GPLv2-licensed ImageMaster project. (The author of the code was not contacted by Microsoft.)

    I see two problems here. (I’m not a FSF [Free Software Foundation] professional, so there may be more.)

    First, Microsoft did not offer or provide source code for their modifications to ImageMaster nor their tool….

    Second, Microsoft glued in some of their own licensing terms, further restricting your rights to the software.

    Man, that burns me up.

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