Re: Open Software License v2.1

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

Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> wrote:

> You've been tricked by lawyers. This clause says that only the
> copyright holder may file patent lawsuits.

These licenses tend to include patent licenses. As a result, the
copyright holder /doesn't/ get to sue you (at least, not if they want to
win). They don't lose their copyright license in the process, but then
the GPL allows the copyright holder to distribute binaries without
source without losing their copyright license as well.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59-chiark.mail.debian.legal@srcf.ucam.org