After Microsoft donated driver code to the Linux kernel under the GPLv2, stories surfaced that they had done so under duress of already being in assault of the GPL. Microsoft quickly denied that any GPL illegality was a driver for their decision to donate the code; the company's senior overseer of platform strategy, Sam Ramji, said at the time: "Microsoft's decision was not based on any perceived obligations tied to the GPLv2 license." Now the os Freedom Law Center confirms that Microsoft was indeed in infraction of the GPLv2 when it distributed its Hyper-V Linux Integration Components without if source code. people members led by Greg Kroah-Hartman contacted the company and coached them through the process of getting compliant. Microsoft now says that they had already been on the path for several months toward releasing the os/2 under GPLv2 before Kroah-Hartman got in touch.

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