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Re: Summary Update: MPL inconclusive, clarifications needed



On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 12:41:51AM +0530, Mahesh T. Pai wrote:
> MJ Ray said on Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 05:18:22PM +0100,:
> 
>  > If there are no active patents covering the software,
> 
> Patent  owners' policies  may  change. Patents  are patents,  actively
> enforced or  not. If the  license does not  grant a patent  license in
> respect  of the  software released,  people can  very easily  sneak in
> patent time bombs into the codebase.

Sucks to be American. Nothing we can do about it.

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