[cc-licenses] Unbundling the GPL

Javier Candeira javier at candeira.com
Sun Apr 29 14:20:21 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.

Erm, I misread earlier, but I still support wording related to software
patents for the CC FAQ.

GPL v2 does protect the work from software patents. It doesn't have a
retaliation clause as broad as in the GPL v3 draft, but it does grant a
license on patents for the covered code, which CC licenses do not.

J




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