Brian Thomas Sniffen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For example, imagine a license which said any attempt to sue over
Oops, left part out. This should say something like: Imagine a license which is just like the patent-terminating-copyright license in question, but terminates on any lawsuit over physical property. So if you're using my software which is written under this license, and you sue to get me out of your house or to give back your car, you lose the rights to the software. Surely that's not free, no matter how badly I believe property rights are a great evil -- but I can imagine a world where the rented-hardware model continued to dominate the industry, and some here might argue that rejection of that model is necessary for free software. The physical-property-entangling license is only obviously not-free because it's not our crusade, it's from an alternate universe. So how is this patent-license business different from a license to use physical property? This is still just an attempt to blackmail pre-existing property rights away from users of your software. It's critically different from a copyleft, because there there isn't a pre-existing property right. -Brian -- Brian Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
