Patranun Limudomporn said on Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 02:19:57PM +0700,: > (d) Notwithstanding Section 2.1(b) above, no patent license is > granted: 1) for code that You delete from the Original Code; 2) > separate from the Original Code; or 3) for infringements caused by: > i) the modification of the Original Code or ii) the combination of > the Original Code with other software or devices.
I recall reading on debian legal (2) is considered not free by debian. see the debian-legal archives. The consensus was that this provision prevents code reuse in other applications. The discussion on Debian-legal came up in the context of Nokia Public license. Mozilla, the application is considered free because it is dual licensed under the MPL and GPL. The debian-legal archive is at http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/ If you wish to have your package carried in Debian, you may wihs to cross check on that list too. > (d) Notwithstanding Section 2.2(b) above, no patent license is > granted: 1) for any code that Contributor has deleted from the > Contributor Version; 2) separate from the Contributor Version; Again. See above. -- +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+ Mahesh T. Pai, LL.M., 'NANDINI', S. R. M. Road, Ernakulam, Cochin-682018, Kerala, India. http://in.geocities.com/paivakil +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+ -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3