Re: [fielding@apache.org: Review of proposed Apache License, version 2.0]
Henning Makholm <henning@makholm.net> writes:
>> The argument proposed was attempting to say "No company is ever going
>> to grant free patent licenses"; I pointed out the argument applies
>> equally to software
>
> And I point out that it doesn't. If the company patent their invention
> at all, it must be because they intend to restrict people from using
> it (or at least keep an option open for using the patent to restrict
> what people do). If they do not intend that, why would they apply for
> a patent at all in the first place?
In the current patent-litigation context, a large stable of patents to
cross-license is considered a vitally important corporate defense
strategy.
>> (it's the same one that proprietary software advocates have been
>> making for about 20 years, claiming that free software can't work),
>
> No, it has nothing to do with that argument.
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