On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 03:44:04PM -0400, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: > That's fine, but if you haven't *really* freely licensed it to me > unless I refrain from suing you, then it's not a free license.
That's the assertion in question, but it seems almost like we're arguing about schrodinger's cat. If you win the lawsuit, then you're right, it's not a free license, and no one should be distributing the software because it's illegal software. [Though it might be possible to distribute the software under some proprietary license if the patent holder(s) and the copyright holder(s) cooperate.] If you don't win the lawsuit, then the suit was bogus, and you've inflicted bogus costs on me. I don't see any argument that the license is not free in this case. -- Raul
