Sunnanvind Fenderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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.
Intel is granting specific rights which do not extend to all GPL software. Therefore, clause 7 of the GPL comes into effect, and we can't distribute GPL'd works which include this Intel code. Clause 7 is actually quite clear about this. Regards, Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
