Open source must be able to deal with patent licenses if necessary

Posted Oct 19, 2010 13:03 UTC (Tue) by drag (guest, #31333)
In reply to: Open source must be able to deal with patent licenses if necessary by FlorianMueller
Parent article: Open Standards in Europe: FSFE responds to BSA letter

I expect that the reality is that the GPLv2 will prevent 'inbound patent licenses' depending on the nature of the particular patent license.

This is something that Novel, Microsoft, Google, and et al seem to be dealing with in one way or another. Otherwise what else was the point of the 'covenant' and such things?