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Introducing the Defensive Patent License

Introducing the Defensive Patent License

Posted Jun 24, 2012 12:02 UTC (Sun) by liw (subscriber, #6379)
Parent article: Introducing the Defensive Patent License

If the DPL wanted to help software freedom, it would add a clause saying that all DPL-licensed patents are automatically licensed for use in code under a free software license, or at least specific ones.

It's not acceptable to require every free software project or maker to join the DPL: there's millions of such projects.


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