Covenants, licenses, and GPL virality

Covenants, licenses, and GPL virality

Posted Nov 10, 2006 2:16 UTC (Fri) by BrucePerens (subscriber, #2510)
In reply to: Covenants, licenses, and GPL virality by giraffedata
Parent article: On Novell and Microsoft

Just to make sure you're clear about this: The covenant might allow a SuSE customer to redistribute, but it does not apply to the person to whom the SuSE customer redistributes. That's important - if one SuSE customer could pass the patent right granted by the covenant to everyone through a chain of distribution and redistribution, the GPL objection we are discussing would not apply.

Bruce

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