Microsoft has acknowledged that it incorporated open-source code into a Windows 7 download tool. As a result, it will make the download tool's source code available to the community.
The code in question concerned the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool, a utility for loading Windows 7 onto either a USB key or a DVD. The tool was pulled after a blogger discovered that Microsoft had incorporated code using the GPLv2 license, which requires Microsoft to provide its own source code documentation, or at least offer to.
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