On Tuesday 30 October 2001 10:07 pm, Russell Nelson wrote: > The Patent License does not say that you cannot run the software if > your operating system is not GPL'ed. It says that you are granted a > license if your operating system is GPL'ed. That's *all*.
And that's enough to disqualify it. The patent related rights granted may be specious and useless, but they are rights. The OSD says "The rights attached to the program must not depend on the program's being part of a particular software distribution," and "all parties to whom the program is redistributed should have the same rights as those that are granted in conjunction with the original software distribution." My interpretation is that "the rights" mentioned are all rights, not just those related to the software's opensourcedness. -- David Johnson ___________________ http://www.usermode.org pgp public key on website -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3