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Re: YAL (Yet another license)



Jonathan P Tomer writes:
> hm, does the gpl require the distributor of a derived work to give
> licence to all applicable patents they own?

No.

> i think that's a nice feature.

I agree.

> the legal file requirement is potentially problematic (since it forces a
> particular name)

I Think it is ok (dumb, but ok).  It just requires a particular name for
one file, not the package.

> this licence looks an awful lot like another one we looked at a while
> ago, which one was it and what did we decide about that one?

I don't know.  Many of these heavily lawyered licenses have a superficial
similarity.
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