On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 08:14:36PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Old clause: > > > > Any lawsuit claiming patent infringement revokes your license. > > > > New clause: > > > > Any lawsuit claiming patent infringement revokes your license. > > I think you mean "Any lawsuit claiming patent infringement in this work > revokes your license". Claiming that the two are equivilent is missing > the point entirely. One is a license that limits acts that have nothing > whatsoever to do with the software, and one isn't.
Quite irrelevant; it's still a clause that says any lawsuit claiming patent infringement revokes your license. Those aren't free no matter how many other unrelated things change in the license. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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