On Sun, 30 Dec 2012, John Funnell wrote:
When a user makes their first copy, their acceptance of the anti-patent license is also an agreement to the restrictions on usage. If a US person violates this by entering into an agreement for a limited-scope patent license, they violate their original copyright license and are thus not allowed to copy, own or use the software.
But can it retroactively invalidate an existing copy? If I write a license saying someone can only copy the software if they are a vegetarian, and they copy the software and start eating meat later on, they still were a vegetarian at the moment they copied the software. You won't be able to use the copy restriction like a use restriction because the copy restriction only applies to conditions that are true when the copy was made. _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
