Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Intel hereby grants Recipient and Licensees a non-exclusive, > worldwide, royalty- free patent license under Licensed Patents to > make, use, sell, offer to sell, import and otherwise transfer the > Software, if any, in source code and object code form. This license > shall include changes to the Software that are error corrections or > other minor changes to the Software that do not add functionality or > features when the Software is incorporated in any version of a > operating system that has been distributed under the GNU General > Public License 2.0 or later. This patent license shall apply to the > combination of the Software and any operating system licensed under > the GNU Public License version 2.0 or later if, at the time Intel > provides the Software to Recipient, such addition of the Software to > the then publicly available versions of such operating system > available under the GNU Public License version 2.0 or later (whether > in gold, beta or alpha form) causes such combination to be covered > by the Licensed Patents. The patent license shall not apply to any > other combinations which include the Software. No hardware per se is > licensed hereunder.
This rather long paragraph means that I can't take out some code covered by patents and use it to extend my favorite text editor. That would count as an additional restriction, and thus GPL-incompatible. This is different from the real-time Linux patents, which allow for any implementation as long as it is under the GPL. Regards, Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
