Matthew Flaschen wrote: > Ringo Kamens wrote: >> LG has decided to pay Microsoft for their "patents" on GNU/Linux. This >> is ridiculous. > > Wait, are you sure this is about GNU/Linux? I have an LG phone, and I > think it runs a proprietary OS (Symbian). However, it's still annoying > that people sign licensing agreements that legitimize software patents.
PC World says it does include (GNU/?)Linux devices. This is disturbing, because it seems to be a license to LG, not its customers (like with Novell and Xandros). That would seem to be an actual violation of GPLv2 section 7. What do people think? Matthew Flaschen _______________________________________________ Advocate mailing list [email protected] http://badvista.fsf.org/mailman/listinfo/advocate
