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GPL did not handle any patents until version 3. As for version 3, it has a patent grant clause. Even distributing BSD licensed code by a licensee exhausts pate
by AstralStorm 8y ago
GPL did not handle any patents until version 3. As for version 3, it has a patent grant clause.
Even distributing BSD licensed code by a licensee exhausts patents embodied in it.
(As an interesting case, this might mean patents related to code published as ISO examples voids MP3 patents on specific algorithms used in that code. The question then is if the standard body is a licensee.)
- epjuykfixgd 8y ago> GPL did not handle any patents until version 3 ORLY? So if you open up the text of the GPLv2 and Ctrl+F for "patent" and all those hits show up—especially in and around section 7—that's what, then? The _GPLv2 doesn't address patents, but GPLv3 does_ mantra is a too-common lie. GPLv2 does address patents, explicitly.