Re: Patent clauses in licenses
On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 02:24:25PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Wouter Verhelst:
>
> > Unlike in the software business, there are some domains (such as
> > pharmaceutics) where patents really are crucial to innovation
>
> It's not clear which role patents play in pharmaceutics.
[...]
Okay, then perhaps the pharmaceutics industry isn't a very good example.
That's not the point I was trying to make; the point is that even though
software patents are quite clearly a bad idea, that doesn't mean /all/
patents are bad. Therefore, having a copyright license which forbids you
to sue the author on /any/ patent infringement, on the risk of losing
your right to use the patent is not good.
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