Re: Open Software License v2.1

[Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 08:14:36PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>> I think you mean "Any lawsuit claiming patent infringement in this work
>> revokes your license". Claiming that the two are equivilent is missing
>> the point entirely. One is a license that limits acts that have nothing
>> whatsoever to do with the software, and one isn't.
> 
> Quite irrelevant; it's still a clause that says any lawsuit claiming
> patent infringement revokes your license. Those aren't free no matter
> how many other unrelated things change in the license.

For definitions of "any" that, uh, aren't actually equivilent to "any".
Possibly.

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