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IANAL, but this commenter, whose profile claims he is a lawyer, says BSD carries an implicit grant which is broader in theory than Facebook's explicit one, but
by btown 9y ago
IANAL, but this commenter, whose profile claims he is a lawyer, says BSD carries an implicit grant which is broader in theory than Facebook's explicit one, but still has some untested characteristics: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9113515 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9113515
- notacoward 9y agoIt's not just some characteristics that are unsettled. The same people braying about the legal risks of relying on an explicit but revocable patent license should be even more wary of anything implicit or assumed. Any lawyer pretending otherwise in a professional context would be flirting with malpractice.