When the code drop was announced Monday, nor Microsoft, nor Kroah-Hartman spoke of the violation. To confirm the story, About-Microsoft blogger Mary-Jo Foley contacted Kroah-Hartman, and he confirmed that Hemminger is indeed correct: the code drop seems to have been brought on by a GPL violation. A “break from the ordinary” and a “significant milestone”? None of that - just a silently handled case, with an overdose of marketing spin, to prevent a major embarrassment for Microsoft.
— Microsoft’s Linux Kernel Code Drop Result of GPL Violation
