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Re: Open Software License v2.1



On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 09:26:25AM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> 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).

Unless you're about to show a license that says "You may use any
patents that we hold for any purposes", then that's irrelevant.

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