Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 08:14:36PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: >> 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.
For definitions of "any" that, uh, aren't actually equivilent to "any". Possibly. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]