> You also can't violate a license, if you haven't agreed to one in the first place. Perhaps I chose a misleading word by saying "violating" as it implies only

> You also can't violate a license, if you haven't agreed to one in the first place. Perhaps I chose a misleading word by saying "violating" as it implies only the problems for license holders. The nature of patents however is that if someone has a patent affecting your software you are potentially in violation if you either don't have a license or you do have a license and are in violation of it (which tends to devolve into a contractual dispute).