It seems very important to point out something here that I hope is obvious, but may not be: the Fedora project is not representative of, nor does it speak for,

It seems very important to point out something here that I hope is obvious, but may not be: the Fedora project is not representative of, nor does it speak for, the entire Linux ecosystem. Fedora is ultimately stewarded by Red Hat, which (let's not forget)... is now an IBM company. As such, a cynic might be inclined to read this notice more like "IBM doesn't like FOSS licenses that are (or might possibly be construed as) patent-prohibitive." At the risk of sounding churlish... NO $**T! Phrased more delicately, methinks one's motives might be suspect. I find this little more than another pawn moved around the board in the whole "how cozy with big business should FOSS be" debate, and my personal take is that we passed most sane thresholds a decade or more ago. IBM via Red Hat via Fedora can 2>&1>/dev/null .