Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab AT web.de>]

Am Dienstag, 24. Februar 2015, 12:00:10 schrieb Rob Myers:
> If I receive a patent-encumbered BY-SA licensed work from a third party 
> and then incorporate it into a GPL-licensed work, the problem remains. 
> Presumably patents would have to be declared in the license block for 
> any work covered by them to allow this to be avoided. This would require 
> a modification to BY-SA, which is out of scope for this discussion, I 
> believe.

You also get that problem, when I (from Germany) send a GPL’ed program
to the USA where there’s a software patent on something I do
(scrollbars or such).

I think Andrew put it best: There’s no strategic gain to be won for
Patent trolls (no incentive to exploit this), so it’s no practical
danger.

Best wishes,
Arne
-- 
Unpolitisch sein
heißt politisch sein, 
ohne es zu merken. 
- Arne (http://draketo.de)

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