On Mon, 12 Dec 2016, John Cowan wrote:
On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 5:44 AM, Henrik Ingo <[email protected]> wrote:Many people, including significant producers of BSD software, believe that the BSD license is also a patent license. MIT is on record as saying that the MIT license, which is otherwise equivalent to the 2-clause BSD license, does *not* grant a patent license.
Is there a link to this? I've not found anything similar when I've looked, though I've made the same claims, in particular in reference to recent attempts by fraudsters to claim to be Satoshi Nakamoto so as to claim patent rights to his inventions (which were implemented in BSD-licensed works he published in ~2009).
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