[cc-licenses] Unbundling the GPL
Javier Candeira
javier at candeira.com
Sun Apr 29 13:05:08 EDT 2007
Joachim Durchholz wrote:
> Greg London schrieb:
>> You may also want to mention that licenses like the GPL also protect the
>> work from Software Patents, which isn't in CC-SA.
>
> This applies only to GPL, and there only GPL3, and there's no definitive
> wording for GPL3 yet.
GPL v3 has the explicit goal of being compatible with Apache's patent
retaliation clause, which is harsher than the GPL v2's. So I think
mentioning protection from software patents is quite safe.
J
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