Re: RPSL and DFSG-compliance

[Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

MJ Ray <mjr@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:

> Are we sure that follows DFSG yet? FSF have been a little patchy about 
> broad software patent termination clauses, IMO, which is probably 
> partly because software patents are unfair and no software should be 
> patented.

The presence of a license termination clause merely allows the license
to fall back to a state that we'd consider free in the first place
(though I expect Brian to turn up in a moment to complain that losing
your patent license means you can't distribute it under the same license
any more...)

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