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Re: Patent clauses in licenses



* Thomas Hood:

> It is fine that you think that people who sue for patent infringement are
> naughty, but it is also irrelevant.  Debian is not in the business of
> imposing ethical behavior on its users.

Of course we are.  Debian tries were hard to serve as a guide what is
free software and what is not, sometimes making it hard for users to
run non-free software.  The project also supports copyleft licenses
because software hoarding is considered unethical.



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