On May 16, 2011, at 4:25 PM, al davis <ad...@freeelectron.net> wrote:
> On Monday 16 May 2011, Steven Michalske wrote: >> But lawyers can use that clause as a loophole to invalidate >> legitimate patents. > > Minor side effect of "lawyers can use that clause as a loophole > to invalidate ILLegitimate patents" ... which outnumber the > ligitimate ones a million to one. > A software licence should not be used for this purpose... As a person with patents, I can't afford to contribute substantual code back, but I can use all the code I want. Because my patents are legitimate. But this is straying from this lists topic. I wish the best of luck to those that wish to reinvent this wheel, a gpl compatible library with a less restrictive licence bsd, MIT, etc... Could be used to extend pcb and gschem. And allow commercial interests to support us. > _______________________________________________ > geda-user mailing list > geda-user@moria.seul.org > http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
