It's posturing

> The companies that are party to this agreement have one thing in common: they haven't ever brought suit over their Open Source licenses. Even Red Hat is only rumored to have considered bringing suit against a patent aggressor once concerning some Open Source they might have been using.

"The only winners in a court action are the lawyers".

If I had signed up for this, and I wanted to chase an infringer, I would point at that "opportunity to cure" and say, "you know what, if you don't play ball, that's clear evidence to me of bad faith. I *will* sue".

I just wish they'd signed up to a few more of the bug-fixes in v3, for example the fix to the distribution clause. For example, under v2, if I put separate tars of the binary and source up on a web-site, it's classed as binary distribution triggering the three-year requirement for the source :-(

Cheers,
Wol