2 Jan
2020
2 Jan
'20
4:13 p.m.
On Thursday, January 2, 2020, Hendrik Boom hendrik@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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