[Arm-netbook] Libre RISC-V -- I mean OpenPower M-Class GPU update

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Thursday, January 2, 2020, Hendrik Boom <hendrik at topoi.pooq.com> wrote:

> 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?


i believe so.  section 8 specifically mentions termination including patent
grants.

however section 11 itself is dreadfully unclear.

l.




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