Microsoft admits that a third-party developer lifted open-source code from the GPLv2-licensed ImageMaster project in creating its free Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool. The WUDT had originally been intended as a way of porting Windows 7 onto netbook users’ machines. Microsoft takes responsibility for not catching the code replication as part of its code review process.
– Microsoft took responsibility for a developer lifting code from a
CodePlex-hosted open-source project to build its free Windows 7 USB/DVD
Download Tool, an incident that caused Microsoft to yank the program from its
online Microsoft Store earlier in November.
Microsoft had originally introduced …