Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [2.6] The List, pass #2 | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 01 Aug 2002 14:42:55 +0100 |
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On Thu, 2002-08-01 at 10:33, David Schwartz wrote: > > >An additional problem with a BSD like license is that it makes no > >statement on patents - regrettably a critical issue now days in the > >USSA. That means nothing prevents CITI from providing BSD licensed code > >and then 6 months later sueing everyone who used it. I don't see CITI > >doing that but the basic problem is still there. > > Sure something prevents them. You can't induce people to violate your patent > and then complain when they do what you induced them to do. Remember Rambus?
You don't have to induce them, you just announce release 1 and wait for someone to pick it up and merge it.
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