Arnoud Engelfriet scripsit: > I'm not even sure the license still exists if you take out the > Contribution I made (embodying my patented method) and put > it in some other work.
It's hard to say, certainly. But consider this case: I have patented a gear, and I give you a patent license to make use of this gear. Now you build a machine one part of which is the gear, and I sue, claiming that you were licensed only to use the gear, not the machine of which the gear is a part. Surely you would reply that the very essence of a gear is to be used as a part of something. And likewise with a software library. IANAL, TINLA. -- He made the Legislature meet at one-horse John Cowan tank-towns out in the alfalfa belt, so that [EMAIL PROTECTED] hardly nobody could get there and most of http://www.reutershealth.com the leaders would stay home and let him go http://www.ccil.org/~cowan to work and do things as he pleased. --Mencken, Declaration of Independence -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3