Re: Patent clauses in licenses

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

MJ Ray <mjr@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
> On 2004-09-14 12:25:41 +0100 Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> 
> wrote:
>> As a non-strictly related point, both the FSF and the OSI appear to
>> consider clauses of this nature free. [...]
> 
> On what do you base this opinion?

The description of the Academic Free License at
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html shows that they are
aware of the patent clause it contains and deem it free anyway.

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