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Yeah, exactly, what does this actually accomplish besides putting the user in a worse situation where they are no longer given any sort of patent grant?
by JamesFM 9y ago
Yeah, exactly, what does this actually accomplish besides putting the user in a worse situation where they are no longer given any sort of patent grant?
- matthewmacleod 9y agoAt least it might give the louder parts of the community that have been consistently complaining about this issue a good reason to stop shouting quite as much
- Spivak 9y agoBecause an unspecified parent grant is most likely an implied patent grant, and especially for FOSS there is a very strong case since your are explicitly permitted to study, modify, and use any part of the code.