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Patent threats?!Patent threats?!Posted Jul 20, 2009 18:33 UTC (Mon) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)In reply to: Patent threats?! by davi Parent article: Microsoft contributes Hyper-V drivers to the kernel
The authors of the license disagree with you on that
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/rms-why-gplv3.html
"GPLv3 also provides for explicit patent protection of the users from the program's contributors and redistributors. With GPLv2, users rely on an implicit patent license to make sure that the company which provided them a copy won't sue them, or the people they redistribute copies to, for patent infringement."
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Patent licenses Posted Jul 20, 2009 19:35 UTC (Mon) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link] If Microsoft starts distributing the Linux kernel, things could indeed take an interesting turn of events: by distributing VFAT code they would be giving an implicit patent license to all Linux users. I bet they have already found this, so they will probably not distribute it as a whole.
Patent threats?! Posted Jul 20, 2009 19:44 UTC (Mon) by davi (guest, #18853) [Link]
You seems right about "implicit"! I was mistaken, sorry.
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