Analogy to recent W3C situation
Analogy to recent W3C situation
Posted May 26, 2005 7:16 UTC (Thu) by mjr (guest, #6979)In reply to: A limited patent grant from Nokia by JoeBuck
Parent article: A limited patent grant from Nokia
Do you therefore claim that IBM is violating the GPL?
You appear to have missed the entire point of my post, even though I spesifically said that it wouldn't be Nokia who'd be (necessarily) violating the GPL. Please read it again more carefully.
By the by, this situation is somewhat analogous to the W3C situation of recent years, where allowing "field of use" restrictions on patent grants was considered. See the FSF position which explains why this is incompatible with section 7. Then consider that if a field of use restriction is incompatible, restricting the grant to particular versions of a particular program as published by a particular party surely is too.