RE: Termination for Patent Action

2003-09-28 Thread Lawrence E. Rosen
> The problem I have with this clause is that it is impossible > to evaluate its impact in advance. With the GPL's patent > clause you know its scope: the software you license. With the > old AFL/OSL clause, and IMHO also with this new one, you > don't know what your non-assert is going to be. I

Re: Termination for Patent Action

2003-09-28 Thread 'Arnoud Engelfriet'
Lawrence E. Rosen wrote: > Arnoud Engelfriet responded: > > Actually it goes much further. If you sue any author of any > > AFL- licensed software for patent infringement, you lose all rights > > to *all* AFL-licensed software, as well as all rights to all > > other software with that same "pois

Termination for Patent Action

2003-09-27 Thread Lawrence E. Rosen
terms. Actually, the new AFL version 2.0 (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/afl-2.0.php) doesn't contain that mutual defense clause because some key folks really hated it and refused to use any license that contained it. The AFL (and the Open Software License too) now reads as follows: 1