* Josselin Mouette: >> 8. GENERAL > >> If Recipient institutes patent litigation against a Contributor with >> respect to a patent applicable to software (including a cross-claim or >> counterclaim in a lawsuit), then any patent licenses granted by that >> Contributor to such Recipient under this Agreement shall terminate as >> of the date such litigation is filed. In addition, 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. > > Patent retaliation clause, applicable to patents unrelated to the > software. IIRC this was already declared non-free.
This is the standard patent clause in the IBM Common Public Licsense. It's DFSG-free. The whole license is CPL-based. I wonder if Lucent's license itself infringes upon IBM's copyright on the license. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
