RL 'Bob' Morgan <rlmorgan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Brian Rosen wrote: > >You guys don't have a problem with the "defensive suspension"/"no first > >use" clauses, do you? > > > >Is there a "preferred" wording for it? > > I think you'll find virtually identical wording on this topic in several > well-known licenses: > > http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 > http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/MPL-1.1.html > http://www.eclipse.org/legal/cpl-v10.html > http://www.opensource.org/licenses/afl-2.1.php Indeed. The language in these licenses represents the community consensus about patent termination. Yes, there really is one; the official line of the Debian project is an outlier, in dispute within Debian itself. -- <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a> _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf