I am not a lawyer, but I can read, (B) Patent Grant- Subject to the terms of this license, including the
license conditions and limitations in section 3, each contributor grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license under its licensed patents to make, have made, use, sell, offer for sale, import, and/or otherwise dispose of its contribution in the software or derivative works of the contribution in the software.
In section 3, (B) If you bring a patent claim against any contributor over patents that
you claim are infringed by the software, your patent license from such contributor to the software ends automatically.
In summary: We won't sue you, if you don't sue us. If you do, then the gloves are off. And let me reiterate: I am not a lawyer. On 5/31/07, John Messerly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi, I am definitely not a lawyer, but I think this question is addressed in the Microsoft Permissive License ( http://www.microsoft.com/resources/sharedsource/licensingbasics/permissivelicense.mspx). See section 2.b, "Patent Grant". Cheers, John -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sanghyeon Seo Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 6:10 PM To: Discussion of IronPython Subject: [IronPython] Patent concerns Hi, Recently on jvm-languages list, which is an interest group surrounding language implementation for the JVM, Frank Wierzbicki from Jython project expressed the concern that Microsoft may hold a lot of patents related to IronPython, so he is reluctant to look at the source code even if it is open-sourced. http://groups.google.com/group/jvm-languages/msg/0d16a82b53233a72 Apparently, this seems to be a widespread concern. I think this is a pity, since in my opinion IronPython has a lot of good ideas that would benefit language implementations on JVM. So, please answer if possible. What patents Microsoft hold, related to IronPython? -- Seo Sanghyeon _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@lists.ironpython.com http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@lists.ironpython.com http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com
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