Josh Triplett wrote: > I agree that this proposition is not specific enough about the types of > conditions that we consider acceptable. I would propose the following > addition to the above text, which I believe specifies a set of > acceptable conditions that many on -legal agree with: > > """ > Requiring that distributors of a piece of software refrain from making > accusations of patent infringement regarding the software itself is > consistent with the goal of upholding the freedoms of users over that > software. As such, we consider license condititions acceptable that > terminate a licensee's rights to the software if that licensee raises a > patent lawsuit claiming that the software in question infringes their > patent(s). > > However, many software licenses choose to go further than that, > requiring that distributors refrain entirely from engaging in patent > lawsuits against any authors of the software, regardless of whether > those lawsuits are related to the software or not. We do not support > the practice of patenting software, but we find it unacceptable for > licenses to place requirements which pertain to other, independent > works. We believe this policy is consistent with the principles behing > in Debian Free Software Guideline 9, "License Must Not Contaminate Other > Software". > """ Strange typo here; s/behing in/behind/. > What do others think of this proposal? > > - Josh Triplett
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