Samba Team Asks Novell to Reconsider

Samba Team Asks Novell to Reconsider

Posted Nov 13, 2006 18:16 UTC (Mon) by cventers (subscriber, #31465)
In reply to: Samba Team Asks Novell to Reconsider by jayorke
Parent article: Samba Team Asks Novell to Reconsider

You're not reading far enough into the website you quote.

Red Hat's Open Source Assurance program is just as you quote. Red Hat's
indemnification is an additional new feature that means Red Hat will step
in for legal defense.

Also, I don't see how you could call it anything /but/ a license. Trying
to call it anything else is just spin. A patent license is a covenant not
to sue for patent infringement, and a covenant not to sue for patent
infringement is a patent license.

No specific infringements have been identified, which makes the
arrangement with Microsoft a blanket patent license for their whole
portfolio, as it might apply to SUSE Linux.

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