On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 10:37:55AM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote: > On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Axel Thimm wrote: > > >I would ask the patent holders if they can explicitely allow Fedora > >redistribution of vtk if it is deemed a viable modus by fedora > >(legal?). > > Which license is vtk under? If it is BSD-like I understand the issue, but > if it's (L)GPL the license text says it implies that the authors give a > royalty-free license of their own patents for anyone using the code under > the (L)GPL, and this is actually quite common I think, and then there is > no issue, we (all (L)GPL software) already have a license for the patents. Unfortunately it's BSD like. I wasn't aware of this kind of difference between the licenses, thanks for clarifying. Still the issue remains: The authors have hold of the patents and fedora extras would need special permission. Would fedora extras/legal/"" go along? -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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