Re: Intel's drivers license

[Walter Landry <wlandry@ucsd.edu>]

Sunnanvind Fenderson <sunnanvind@fenderson.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.

Intel is granting specific rights which do not extend to all GPL
software.  Therefore, clause 7 of the GPL comes into effect, and we
can't distribute GPL'd works which include this Intel code.  Clause 7
is actually quite clear about this.

Regards,
Walter Landry
wlandry@ucsd.edu