Re: gEDA-user: GPL-v3 for Open CAD

2010-08-15 Thread Steven Michalske
On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Peter TB Brett pe...@peter-b.co.uk wrote: On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 09:53:55 +0800, Steven Michalske smichal...@gmail.com wrote: To make this point clear to get companies like IBM to support GPL V3 they had to put in clauses that excepted them from the IP rules.

Re: gEDA-user: GPL-v3 for Open CAD

2010-08-14 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 09:53:55 +0800, Steven Michalske smichal...@gmail.com wrote: To make this point clear to get companies like IBM to support GPL V3 they had to put in clauses that excepted them from the IP rules. [citation needed]. This is pure FUD. Also see this clause

Re: gEDA-user: GPL-v3 for Open CAD

2010-08-13 Thread Armin Faltl
John Griessen wrote: al davis wrote: On Friday 13 August 2010, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: can you give an example, please? Under GPL-3 you can't make a contribution that applies one of your own patents, then sue the users of the package for patent infringement. Sounds OK for openness so

Re: gEDA-user: GPL-v3 for Open CAD

2010-08-13 Thread Steven Michalske
To make this point clear to get companies like IBM to support GPL V3 they had to put in clauses that excepted them from the IP rules. Also see this clause http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License#Compatibility_and_multi-licensing you cant link a GPL v3 library into non GPL v3