Walter Landry wrote:
> 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. Well... Patents normally mean "Hey, hands off this". This patent license grants an additional *permission*, to use the patents in certain software. > This is different from the real-time Linux > patents, which allow for any implementation as long as it is under > the GPL. I agree, that would be better. This is a lot more restrictive. I'm still not sure that it's GPL-incompatible or DFSG-nonfree, though. It *is* an added permission rather than added restrictions, right? What does the GNU folk say? Sunnanvind (I don't like patents.)
