Clark C. Evans scripsit: > The FSF considers works released under CC0 to be "Free Software" > [1], but, the rationale for this determination was never disclosed. > Perhaps because anyone could sue for patent infringement regardless > of copyright?
Indeed, there are many Free Software licenses without patent clauses, notably the GPLv2 (which only says that if there's a patent you know about that would be infringed and is not freely licensed to all, you can't distribute the code). -- Verbogeny is one of the pleasurettes John Cowan <co...@ccil.org> of a creatific thinkerizer. http://www.ccil.org/~cowan --Peter da Silva _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
