If Kereberos had been under the GPL, then MS couldn't have pulled that embrace and extend trick...
Of course they could. The Kerberos spec itself can't be GPLed; only specific implementations of it are subject to any licensing at all (barring any patents, of course).
Re:Kereberos? GPL? What? (Score:2)
His point was the GPLing would have helped.
If Kereberos had been under the GPL, then MS couldn't have pulled that embrace and extend trick...
Of course they could. The Kerberos spec itself can't be GPLed; only specific implementations of it are subject to any licensing at all (barring any patents, of course).