spinynorman Posted March 29, 2007 Report Share Posted March 29, 2007 Groklaw has collected from the FSF's rationale document, the explanations of Section 11 on patents in GPLv3 draft 3. Paragraph 4 of Section 11 addresses the Novell deal, attempting to undo any perceived benefit, but with the goal of protecting the community from patent aggression. Any party that distributes other folks' GPL code and makes patent peace promises to some but not all recipients of copies, automatically extends the patent peace promise to all recipients. Full details at Groklaw. Apparently, Linus is "pretty pleased" with the new GPLv3 draft. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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