John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jonathan P Tomer writes:
> > hm, does the gpl require the distributor of a derived work to give > > licence to all applicable patents they own? > No. | You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' | exercise of the rights granted herein. You are not responsible | for enforcing compliance by third parties to this License. Couldn't owning an applicable patent and *not* granting patent licenses to it be construed as "imposing further restriction on the recipient's exercise of the rights granted" by the GPL? It's not clear-cut, but I suppose it's at least a *possible* interpretation. -- Henning Makholm