Thomas Hood writes: > The restrictions in the GPL are of a different kind. They limit what the > licensee can do _with_the_program_. (Viz., the licensee cannot > redistribute the program without providing source code, etc.) These are > not restrictions on what the licensee could have done had she not received > the program. We have to keep this distinction in mind, I think.
None of the patent clauses prevent people from doing things they could have done had they not received the program, since none of them try to enforce a waiver on the licensee. Michael Poole