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Timing?

Timing?

Posted Mar 2, 2009 23:41 UTC (Mon) by pjhacnau (subscriber, #4223)
In reply to: Timing? by dowdle
Parent article: Third time is the charm?

"because such presumes there exists some patent issues where protection is needed"

How better to demonstrate the need for protection than by successfuly suing someone?

to post comments

There's another reason

Posted Mar 3, 2009 1:13 UTC (Tue) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link]

The GPL doesn't allow Red Hat to make a deal to protect itself from patents, unless it is allowed to pass that protection downstream to anyone who obtains there code or makes changes to it.

Novell got around this by some questionable legal trickery, of a kind that GPLv3/LGPLv3 does not permit.


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