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Re: Patent clauses in licenses



On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 10:48:25AM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> Michael Poole writes:
> > Company B's "defensive" claims also affect all other users of the
> > original software -- now that they attempt to enforce their patent
> > rights, no other users can assume themselves to be safe.
> 
> Why do you assume that company B's claims must have to do with the original
> software, or even with software at all?

Because that was the scenario I selected for an example. Why are you
questioning a hypothetical?

This is an example of a method by which the proposed clause is easily
abused to prevent the work from being free software.

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