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

Posted Oct 19, 2010 22:30 UTC (Tue) by bojan (subscriber, #14302)
In reply to: Open source must be able to deal with patent licenses if necessary by mjthayer
Parent article: Open Standards in Europe: FSFE responds to BSA letter

I don't think we should attempt to rewrite history. GPLv3 was drafted to counter specific threats to free software, such as Tivoization and patent deals. These things were barely on the horizon when GPLv2 was released.

What I was arguing in my post is that GPLv3 cannot be dismissed, because a crucially important piece of software that covers Windows interoperability is licensed under it. Also, thousands of businesses us rsync daily for backups, file syncs etc.