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The commit that dual-licensed under BSD and GPLv2 also "removed PATENTS clause": https://github.com/facebook/zstd/commit/4f73b3b55d83b082aad180816a5d336eff33a2
by electrum 8y ago
The commit that dual-licensed under BSD and GPLv2 also "removed PATENTS clause":
https://github.com/facebook/zstd/commit/4f73b3b55d83b082aad180816a5d336eff33a243 https://github.com/facebook/zstd/commit/4f73b3b55d83b082aad1...
- tensor 8y agoBSD doesn't have a patent grant, so doesn't this mean you are only legally free of their patent if you use the GPL code? Also, any independent implementation of the algorithm would be subject to patent fees?
- garmaine 8y agoGPLv2 doesn't have patent clauses either (that was the reason for GPLv3). So I'm extra confused.