http://www.actonline.org/documents/ACT-GPLv3-Legal-Risks.pdf
(GPLv3: The Legal Risks of Overreaching for Third Party Patent Rights)
At some point, efforts to block patent licenses that are legally
entered into and fully consistent with contract law, as well as the
intellectual property laws en
Imagine the following scenario.
One of the BSDs copies some GPL'ed code and releases it under the BSD
license. True to form and history, Microsoft then copies that "BSD" code
into its own codebase and releases it under a proprietary license.
What happens legally now ? Isn't Microsoft the recipien
You cannot steal code, so such an analogy is without a point.
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One of the BSDs copies some GPL'ed code and releases it under the BSD
license.
What you stated has just happened.
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38746
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