MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Patents cannot be used on software at all here. It's disappointing > if software patent problems are being exported to us by GPLv3.
The patent related requirements in GPLv3 only exist in a region to the extent that software patents exist in that region - so if your first sentence is right, then your second is null. Unfortunately, software patents can be used in the UK. They probably can't to win a court case, but until we have undisputed legislation saying they're invalid, they can still be used for their primary purpose: FUD. GPLv3 aims to assure recipients of GPLv3'd software that their distributor will not sue them, and it assures further downstream recipients that they are as safe as the person they received the software from. I haven't seen any good argument for why GPLv3 shouldn't give users these assurances. -- Ciarán O'Riordan __________________ \ http://fsfeurope.org/projects/gplv3 http://ciaran.compsoc.com/ _________ \ GPLv3 and other work supported by http://fsfe.org/fellows/ciaran/weblog \ Fellowship: http://www.fsfe.org _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
