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The GPL hobbling software patents sounds like a massive plus, and anyone who considers it not a massive plus to be the sort of people the GPL was explicitly des
by davidgerard 10y ago
The GPL hobbling software patents sounds like a massive plus, and anyone who considers it not a massive plus to be the sort of people the GPL was explicitly designed to protect against.
- Nomentatus 10y agoFor one more time, it's NOT just software patents. Plus you forgot the "IF" at the start of your sentence. Has it really discouraged software patents? No, patents (of both kinds) have sidelined GPL. As stated above the license given to the Linux kernel is "stranded" and therefore harmless, a special case.
- davidgerard 10y agoGive me a clear example of the GPL affecting a hardware patent. (Where the hardware patent isn't really obviously an attempted end run around the GPL.) C'mon, something convincing. All the patent ills you're attributing to the GPL apply to the Apache License too, btw. AL2 is where GPL3 took its cue on patents.