[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



More information about the cc-licenses mailing list