SFLC: A Wake-Up Call for GPLv3 Migration

Posted Apr 20, 2009 10:27 UTC (Mon) by alankila (guest, #47141)
In reply to: SFLC: A Wake-Up Call for GPLv3 Migration by mmarq
Parent article: SFLC: A Wake-Up Call for GPLv3 Migration

"easy.. if you have a patent and your code is in a GPLv3 repo you are already giving a patent license to anyone that might use that repo..."

While this is a valid point, it was never the situation I had in mind. It's good to know that GPLv3 will prevent perverting codebase from becoming polluted by submarine patents that are owned by the code contributor.