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Is it true that copyright licenses can't add restrictions? Patent retaliation clauses in software copyright licenses suggest otherwise to me.
by lambertsimnel 7y ago
Is it true that copyright licenses can't add restrictions? Patent retaliation clauses in software copyright licenses suggest otherwise to me.
- GlitchMr 7y agoThis isn't a restriction. Rather, a license grants a patent license which has its additional requirements. If you violate those requirements, you lose a patent license, but you don't violate the copyright (at which point, the license can be read as if it didn't have patent clause at all).
- lambertsimnel 7y agoCan't copyright licenses terminate for any licensee who violates any term? What about copyleft itself? Don't violators lose their licenses?