On Thursday, January 2, 2020, Hendrik Boom <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 02, 2020 at 12:28:03AM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton > wrote: > > > > IBM takes its responsibility as a world-leader extremely seriously, > > and they're providing an extremely sneaky royalty-free patent license > > for POWER ISA, which says, "you get free unrestricted use of these > > patents as long as you don't ever try to assert a patent - ever - > > against us, IBM". > > > > *that's* clever :) > > Aren't there similar terms in the GPL3? > Except of course you get to use the software instead of any patents? i believe so. section 8 specifically mentions termination including patent grants. however section 11 itself is dreadfully unclear. l. -- --- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
