From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
Cc: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>,
Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>,
"Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: business models [was patent stuff]
Date: 28 May 2002 12:30:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1022585432.4123.19.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E17CcnO-0004Zg-00@starship>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-28 10:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-27 21:52 patent on O_ATOMICLOOKUP [Re: [PATCH] loopable tmpfs (2.4.17)] Adam J. Richter
2002-05-27 22:24 ` business models [was patent stuff] Larry McVoy
2002-05-27 23:15 ` Karim Yaghmour
2002-05-27 23:31 ` Austin Gonyou
2002-05-28 9:29 ` Peter Wächtler
2002-05-28 13:46 ` Mark Mielke
2002-05-29 8:34 ` Peter Wächtler
2002-05-28 7:53 ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
2002-05-28 8:57 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-05-28 11:30 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2002-05-28 10:32 ` Ingo Oeser
2002-05-28 12:28 ` Jonathan Corbet
2002-05-28 18:35 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-05-27 23:26 ` patent on O_ATOMICLOOKUP [Re: [PATCH] loopable tmpfs (2.4.17)] Alan Cox
[not found] <50.c105234.2a24c92d@aol.com>
2002-05-28 13:42 ` business models [was patent stuff] Gilad Ben-Yossef
2002-05-28 17:13 Adam J. Richter
2002-05-28 17:52 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-05-28 18:22 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-28 17:23 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-05-29 21:44 ` David Weinehall
2002-05-30 4:51 ` Greg KH
2002-05-29 3:21 Adam J. Richter
2002-05-29 13:15 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-29 14:13 ` Jonathan Corbet
2002-05-29 16:15 ` Jamie Lokier
2002-05-29 17:29 ` Nicholas Knight
2002-05-31 20:17 ` Perry The Cynic
2002-06-03 10:49 ` Rob Landley
2002-05-29 19:13 Adam J. Richter
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