RL 'Bob' Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Brian Rosen wrote:
> >You guys don't have a problem with the "defensive suspension"/"no first 
> >use" clauses, do you?
> >
> >Is there a "preferred" wording for it?
> 
> I think you'll find virtually identical wording on this topic in several 
> well-known licenses:
> 
>   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
>   http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/MPL-1.1.html
>   http://www.eclipse.org/legal/cpl-v10.html
>   http://www.opensource.org/licenses/afl-2.1.php

Indeed.  The language in these licenses represents the community consensus
about patent termination.  Yes, there really is one; the official line of the
Debian project is an outlier, in dispute within Debian itself.
-- 
                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>

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