Legally, they're very different. What I meant was that a free software
developer can probably work reasonably comfortably with either of them.

Of coure IANAL.

    Brian

On 2007-05-26 05:50, Bernard Aboba wrote:
With all due respect, broad defensive non-assert clauses are quite different from RF licenses. For an analysis of the differences, see the article below:
http://www.law.uchicago.edu/files/lichtman/def-susp.pdf

Brian Carpenter said:

It's a defensive non-assert disclosure, which IMHO is equivalent to RF
for anyone who plays nicely. Actually a defensive non-assert may
indirectly *protect* a normal implementor, when you think about its
impact on a third party implementor who does try to assert a patent.

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