[Arm-netbook] Libre RISC-V -- I mean OpenPower M-Class GPU update
Hendrik Boom
hendrik at topoi.pooq.com
Thu Jan 2 14:53:05 GMT 2020
On Thu, Jan 02, 2020 at 12:28:03AM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
>
> IBM takes its responsibility as a world-leader extremely seriously,
> and they're providing an extremely sneaky royalty-free patent license
> for POWER ISA, which says, "you get free unrestricted use of these
> patents as long as you don't ever try to assert a patent - ever -
> against us, IBM".
>
> *that's* clever :)
Aren't there similar terms in the GPL3?
Except of course you get to use the software instead of any patents?
-- hendrik
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