Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: business models [was patent stuff] | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 28 May 2002 12:30:32 +0100 |
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On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 09:57, Daniel Phillips wrote: > On Tuesday 28 May 2002 09:53, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: > > And BTW I'm OK with patents as long as their licensed for free to GPLed > > software (maybe add a clause that makes this irreversable?). > > Indeed, an irreversible license is essential, but that's not all. Not > only must the GPL be accommodated, but all open source licenses. And it > is not enough to be free as in "without cost": it must also be free of > additional restrictions.
I don't think you can realistically expect all open source licenses like the BSD one to be accomodated. Otherwise people would ship binary apps linked with a BSD licensed libpatent.o/c that was useless to anyone. The GPL restrictions happen to work very nicely in terms of making a patent available for free software (or one definition thereof), the BSD license alas doesn't.
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