Josh Triplett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However, many software licenses choose to go further than that, > requiring that distributors refrain entirely from engaging in patent > lawsuits against any authors of the software, regardless of whether > those lawsuits are related to the software or not. We do not support > the practice of patenting software, but we find it unacceptable for > licenses to place requirements which pertain to other, independent > works. We believe this policy is consistent with the principles behing > in Debian Free Software Guideline 9, "License Must Not Contaminate Other > Software".
There are two types of clause that fall into this catagory, and I think it's helpful to distinguish between them. The first terminates your patent license if you sue for unrelated patent issues, and the second terminates your copyright license. Earlier discussion on -project seemed to suggest that people were more or less happy with the first, and less happy with the second. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
