drago01 wrote:
So what about the patents owned by redhat?
http://www.redhat.com/legal/patent_policy.html
It's also just "promise".
True. However anything RH shipped as GPLv3 that uses a RH patent is no
longer a mere promise, it's a legally binding patent license. Something
that has yet to come out of M$.
(The same can be argued for GPLv2, just that v3 has a "better" license
in this regard.)
...and I suspect you'd have more luck getting an actual license from RH
if you asked for one.
In a couple of years Microsoft is bought by Fu-Bar Inc and there goes the
promise down the drain.
Same applies to Redhat.
The question to ask here is how this applies when an actual license has
been granted, as in the case of distributing GPLv3 software. (Especially
as I don't see "irrevocable" in Section 11... or, indeed, anything about
the term of the GPLv3 implicit patent license. Hmm, this is actually a
good question at first glance.)
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