Re: Intel's drivers license
Walter Landry wrote:
> This rather long paragraph means that I can't take out some code
> covered by patents and use it to extend my favorite text editor.
> That would count as an additional restriction, and thus
> GPL-incompatible.
Well... Patents normally mean "Hey, hands off this". This patent
license grants an additional *permission*, to use the patents in
certain software.
> This is different from the real-time Linux
> patents, which allow for any implementation as long as it is under
> the GPL.
I agree, that would be better. This is a lot more restrictive. I'm
still not sure that it's GPL-incompatible or DFSG-nonfree, though. It
*is* an added permission rather than added restrictions, right?
What does the GNU folk say?
Sunnanvind (I don't like patents.)
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