Russell Nelson scripsit: > Sure, why not? The GPL discriminates against people who want to > create proprietary derivative copies.
Foo. That is not discrimination; "people who want to do XXX" is not a *pre-existing* group, which surely is what is meant. You might as well say that your local supermarket discriminates against people who have no money. The Intel license *does* discriminate against a pre-existing group: those who don't use Linux (and drafting the license so as not to mention Linux is an obvious tactic, the kind used in U.S. tax law to grant BigCos a tax break without naming them). > Understand that the patent grant is not what is creating the > discrimination. It is the existance of software patents. They are > evil and must be destroyed. But until they are, we have to deal with > them. Fine. Let Intel license its patent royalty-free and without discrimination. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please leave your values | Check your assumptions. In fact, at the front desk. | check your assumptions at the door. --sign in Paris hotel | --Miles Vorkosigan -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3