Bruce Perens wrote: > There are more than enough companies in the world that would gain an > advantage from bringing suit against us with intent to restrain, and > with no expectation of significant damages. I think you'll see some of > these after the current SCO nonsense is over. It's the only way to go > after us with a solid legal foundation.
I'm sure there are. However those companies would not be depending on any open source for that "business", so they couldn't care less about any patent language in open source licenses. In fact for the SCO kind of company such patent license grants may be useful for more FUD: "Look everyone, open source wants to take away all your patents". Arnoud -- Arnoud Engelfriet, Dutch patent attorney - Speaking only for myself Patents, copyright and IPR explained for techies: http://www.iusmentis.com/
