On 30/10/14 08:13, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > Hi, > > Facebook has published what seems a nice piece of code called osquery > under a BSD3 license [1] [2] [3]. I was surprised by an "Additional > Grant of Patent Rights" document that says the following [4]: > > > Additional Grant of Patent Rights > > "Software" means the osquery software distributed by Facebook, Inc. > > Facebook hereby grants you a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free, > non-exclusive, > irrevocable (subject to the termination provision below) license under any > rights in any patent claims owned by Facebook, to make, have made, use, sell, > offer to sell, import, and otherwise transfer the Software. For avoidance of > doubt, no license is granted under Facebook’s rights in any patent claims that > are infringed by (i) modifications to the Software made by you or a third > party, > or (ii) the Software in combination with any software or other technology > provided by you or a third party. > > The license granted hereunder will terminate, automatically and without > notice, > for anyone that makes any claim (including by filing any lawsuit, assertion or > other action) alleging (a) direct, indirect, or contributory infringement or > inducement to infringe any patent: (i) by Facebook or any of its subsidiaries > or > affiliates, whether or not such claim is related to the Software, (ii) by any > party if such claim arises in whole or in part from any software, product or > service of Facebook or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates, whether or not > such claim is related to the Software, or (iii) by any party relating to the > Software; or (b) that any right in any patent claim of Facebook is invalid or > unenforceable. > > > I'm talking about the part "whether or not such claim is related to > the Software". The license is obviously free (BSD3), but I wonder this > "patent license" can affect, in practice, DFSG freedoms. I'd like to > know what other think about it.
This is the part which worries me: no license is granted under Facebook’s rights in any patent claims that are infringed by (i) modifications to the Software made by you or a third party, or (ii) the Software in combination with any software or other technology provided by you or a third party. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5451adfe.5000...@bitmessage.ch
