Michael Poole wrote: > Loss of patent license means the user cannot use the software. Loss > of copyright license (at least in the USA) only removes the license of > a user to modify or copy the software further. I do not see how the > former is narrower than the latter,
I suppose you could copy and modify it without using it. Wait a sec. You can't distribute implementations of a patent without a license either (right?), and the software is considered an implementation. So I suppose you could copy and modify it, but you couldn't distribute it. -- This space intentionally left blank.
