On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 03:07:28PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 04:08:37PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > >> Why are we concerned about people who patent pieces of software while > >> claiming that they'll only use these patents defensively? > > > > You cannot reject a user because you don't like them for some reason, > > and say that they do not deserve the same freedoms as everybody else > > and therefore it doesn't matter that the software isn't free for them. > > The GPL rejects users who want to distribute binaries without source. > The MPL rejects users who want to sue the licensor for infringement of > patents connected to the software. Why do you believe that one of these > cases is significantly different to the other? We've been over this already. One is a significant burden, the other is not. This has got nothing to do with the point I raised, so I presume that you concede it. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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