GCC 10.1 Released
GCC 10.1 Released
Posted May 13, 2020 9:32 UTC (Wed) by joib (subscriber, #8541)In reply to: GCC 10.1 Released by ballombe
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There exists both copyleft and permissive licenses that don't suffer from these problems.
Posted May 13, 2020 15:41 UTC (Wed)
by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
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OMG NO!!!
That is my beef with the GPL3 - patent language does not belong in a copyright licence!!! By all means stick a defensive clause in, but hopefully actually it's all moot now. I don't know the latest state of play, but I think software patents have pretty much been killed by SCOTUS now.
> wasn't really anything to do with copyleft vs permissive, but rather that the license itself was unclear
and the defendant thought he could assume, BECAUSE the language was unclear, that the stuff was actually in the public domain. If you read the wiki article, it sounds like that's what he persuaded the court first time around, but the appeal court knocked that on the head. "If the conditions are unclear, it doesn't mean there are no conditions. It means the copyright holder has gone to the trouble of setting conditions and you must assume you need a licence".
Cheers,
Posted May 15, 2020 2:59 UTC (Fri)
by songmaster (subscriber, #1748)
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Sadly that doesn’t seem to have happened, the US patent office wrote some guidance for its examiners that effectively contradicted the SCOTUS Alice ruling and it’s now back to giving out stupid patents again. See this Techdirt article [1] for more details.
[1] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200423/15295144360/us...
GCC 10.1 Released
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GCC 10.1 Released