Jim Pick writes: > It's difficult reading through all the legal diarrhea in the license - > but it seems pretty clear to me that you lose all the rights > (redistribution, modification, patents) granted to you by the license if > you take a snippet of code (less than 60%) out of Jikes and try to use > it.
I read it as saying that you only lose patent rights. Since other free licenses don't grant any patent rights at all, I don't see why this should be a problem. Does the package actually use any IBM patents, or is this just CYA boiler plate? Look at it this way: If they were to add a patch clause they could delete the 60% stuff because then you would never be able to distribute less than 100% anyway, and it would be DFSG free. I think they are just trying to avoid an exploit where somebody includes one line from jikes in a 100,000 line program in order to avoid paying royalties. The "termination upon legal action" clause is interesting. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI
