Re: Open Software License v2.1

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

Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> wrote:

> Old clause:
> 
> Any lawsuit claiming patent infringement revokes your license.
>
> New clause:
> 
> Any lawsuit claiming patent infringement revokes your license.

I think you mean "Any lawsuit claiming patent infringement in this work
revokes your license". Claiming that the two are equivilent is missing
the point entirely. One is a license that limits acts that have nothing
whatsoever to do with the software, and one isn't.

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