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Last call for GPLv3Last call for GPLv3Posted Jun 14, 2007 14:01 UTC (Thu) by ipes (guest, #43384)Parent article: Last call for GPLv3
Have anyone heard a word about the "that is in the business of distributing software" language? What is the rationale behind it?
To a clueless bystander like yours truly it appears to allow anyone who is not in the business of distributing software to give discriminatory patent licenses on GPLv3 software, and would also allow a rogue company that is in the business of distributing software to set up a proxy for the sole purpose of granting discriminatory licenses/covenants/whatever, thus essentially making the entire paragraph 6 of section 11 ineffective.
Is that the intent? Or is there something else behind it? Either way we should be in the know, as supposedly the GPLv3 process is open, or is it?
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