On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 09:17:34PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
Requiring that distributors of a piece of software refrain from making
accusations of patent infringement regarding the software itself is
consistent with the goal of upholding the freedoms of users over that
software. As
Josh Triplett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
However, many software licenses choose to go further than that,
requiring that distributors refrain entirely from engaging in patent
lawsuits against any authors of the software, regardless of whether
those lawsuits are related to the software or not.
Steve Langasek wrote:
I don't think that Josh has said that -- especially given that you do not
have to have a copyright license to *use* a program. [...]
That given was only clarified in English law fairly recently, added by
implementing some EU directive in the 1990s IIRC. In general, it
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 01:26:27AM +, MJ Ray wrote:
Steve Langasek wrote:
I don't think that Josh has said that -- especially given that you do not
have to have a copyright license to *use* a program. [...]
That given was only clarified in English law fairly recently, added by
[I'm trying to follow the discussion in hopes of better understanding
the issue in order to form an opinion about it. Please excuse me if I
need big amounts of cluebat with this...]
* OSS [Wed, 26 Jan 2005 12:27:44 -0700]:
Steve Langasek wrote:
Matthew Garrett's subsequent message pinpoints
Steve Langasek wrote:
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 12:27:44PM -0700, OSS wrote:
Steve,
If I follow you correctly
A - writes program #49 and licenced under
GPL-compliant-patent-defending-licence
B - distributed program #49 to C-D (may or may not have made
enhancement/change)
C - determines
* Adeodato Simó [Thu, 27 Jan 2005 06:10:39 +0100]:
So I have a question: what is the _practical_ result of License LB in
(b) above, that D can't use A's LB-licensed programs any more, unless
^
uhm, that's probably wrong, then? (After
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 02:57:21AM +, MJ Ray wrote:
Start with something uncontroversial and then build to:
[...]
In the light of the threat that software patents pose to Free
Software, we believe that it is likewise acceptable for software
licenses to place
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