Microsoft has revealed that its patent deal with Linspire doesn’t cover the new version of the GNU General Public License (GPL), the company’s latest effort to distance itself from the GPLv3.

Separately, Lindows said it will imminently release new versions of its flagship Linspire and Freespire products.

In a copy of the Linspire agreement published on Microsoft’s website, the company said specifically that the agreement doesn’t cover “any portions of products that comprise or include Foundry Products, Clone Products, GPLv3 Software or Other Excluded Products”