Re: Choice of venue, was: GUADEC report

[MJ Ray <mjr@dsl.pipex.com>]

On 2004-07-13 11:14:45 +0100 Matthew Garrett 
<mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:

> MJ Ray wrote:
> > Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > > MJ Ray wrote:
> > > > http://perens.com/Articles/Termination.html
> > > Surely GPL 7 causes the same problem (admittedly under a different 
> > > set
> > > of circumstances)?
> > Is that arbitrary?
> Enforcement (or lack thereof) of a patent is arbitrary, yes.

Needing a DFSG-free patent licence is not news to me. If we have a 
patented software, then it's non-free without such a licence. Are 
there other circumstances where GPL 7 offers arbitrary termination?

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