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The problem is, if you bury your head in the sand and leave the patents to the lawyers there's a good chance the lawyers will come after you eventually. Hostile
by the_why_of_y 12y ago
The problem is, if you bury your head in the sand and leave the patents to the lawyers there's a good chance the lawyers will come after you eventually. Hostile ones, that is.
As an illustrative example of what can happen when some third-party profiteers file for patents on your software while re-selling it themselves, read up on the JMRI project's legal troubles:
http://jmri.sourceforge.net/k/summary.shtml http://jmri.sourceforge.net/k/summary.shtml
http://lwn.net/Articles/181261/ http://lwn.net/Articles/181261/
http://lwn.net/Articles/294066/ http://lwn.net/Articles/294066/
That's why my preference is for licenses that explicitly deal with patents: ALv2, MPLv2, (L)GPLv3.