On Mar 19, 2016 10:51 AM, "Sam Halliday" <sam.halli...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It's got nothing to do with contributing to Clojure (the Grant of Right > is standard in all modern free software licences). The problem is the > patent retaliation clause, which I quote from Section 7 of the > [EPL](http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html) > > "If Recipient institutes patent litigation against any entity > (including a cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging that > the Program itself (excluding combinations of the Program with other > software or hardware) infringes such Recipient's patent(s), then such > Recipient's rights granted under Section 2(b) shall terminate as of > the date such litigation is filed." > > In other words, if you ever have a legal dispute with anybady about a > patent violation in clojure (which somebody else could have contributed > without your permission), then you lose your right to use clojure. As > in, turn off your production systems, now. > So don't allege that The Program infringes. Allege that the Contribution infringes. Can you tell IANAL? ;) I just have a hard time believing this could not be finessed by a sufficiently devious lawyer.
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