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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
To: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>, Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
Cc: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: business models [was patent stuff]
Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 10:57:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E17CcnO-0004Zg-00@starship> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200205272152.OAA03070@adam.yggdrasil.com> <20020527152452.A24502@work.bitmover.com> <1022572387.11827.55.camel@gby.benyossef.com>

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.

-- 
Daniel

  reply	other threads:[~2002-05-28  8:59 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 [this message]
2002-05-28 11:30       ` Alan Cox
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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