>
> On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Mark Taylor wrote:
>
> > 1. If you determine that distribution of LAME requires a patent license,
> > and you obtain a patent license, you may distribute LAME even though
> > redistribution of LAME may also require a patent license.
>
> Perhaps with an addition along the lines of:
>
> ", unless you are a party to a lawsuit dealing with above patent in any
> country."
>
> or perhaps
>
> " as long as you don't agree the patent to be valid, and have only
> licensed it to protect your intrests."
>
> The idea here is that right now, with your exception some company could
> buy a patent license then begin assisting FhG in going after free users
> thus effectivly closing the software, even to it's authors!
>
how about:
This is a patch against the ISO MPEG2 dist10 demonstration source. The
modifications are distributed under the GNU LESSER PUBLIC LICENSE
(LGPL, see www.gnu.org) with the following modification:
1. If you determine that distribution of LAME requires a patent license,
and you obtain a patent license, you may distribute LAME even though
redistribution of LAME may also require a patent license.
2. You agree not to enforce any patent claims for any aspect of
MPEG audio compression.
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