Scripsit Walter Landry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > | (b) any software, hardware, or device, other than such Participant's
> > | Contributor Version, directly or indirectly infringes any patent, then
> > I would consider that "discriminating against a field of endeavor" -
> > namely the field that consists of making genuinely relevant and
> > legitimate technical innovations and collect money from patent
> > licenses.
> Actually, the IBM public license has a very similar clause
>
> If Recipient institutes patent litigation against a Contributor
> with respect to a patent applicable to software (including a
There's at least two important differences:
1) IBM is only talking about software patents. I'm willing to concede
that software patents constitute a much more direct threat to free
software than traditional patents.
2) The only thing that terminates here is patent licences - which is
separate from the copyright license spoken about by the DFSG.
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