Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I agree that it would be better if the license said "for any purpose". > > I wonder if that is compatible with the current patent system. Isn't > there some requirement that you need to protect infringement on your > patent somehow?
Not true. For example, see any "submarine patent" where the holder keeps a granted patent quiet for many years and then surfaces only when some implementation of it is widely accepted. You may be thinking, instead, of trademark monopolies, which *do* decay if not enforced by the holder. -- \ "I'm beginning to think that life is just one long Yoko Ono | `\ album; no rhyme or reason, just a lot of incoherent shrieks and | _o__) then it's over." -- Ian Wolff | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
