Ean Schuessler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > If, therefore, OSD-free gets written into some law granting special > > patent rights to free software, say, then that's something that we can > > all live with quite happily. > > You are assuming that the use of the definitions won't be inverted. > Suppose that laws, like the DMCA, begin to state that certain licenses > that don't have "viral properties" are OK for free patent use but things > like the GPL aren't. It would cause us to have to reevaluate non-free in > a radically painful way. That's a far-fetched example but I'm sure > someone could create a more frightening and realistic one with some > effort.
My sentence said what it said. I spoke of *OSD-free*, which unquestionably includes the GPL. And I spoke of laws which grant special rights, not which restrict them.
