On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 05:27:01PM +0100, Gervase Markham wrote:
I want to try and drive this forward a bit more. Here's another
shot at
the wording, including the idea of a patent commons which allows other
licenses to join:
> 10. Termination
>
> Your license grants under section 1 are automatically terminated if
> You
> ...
> b) initiate a patent infringement litigation claim (excluding
> declaratory judgment actions, counterclaims, and cross-claims)
> alleging that any work under any version of a license with
> a clause identical in effect to this one
> directly or indirectly infringes any patent.
[...]
The potential disadvantage of this, presumably, is the risk that
organizations will be less interested in writing or using
copyleft-nexted works.
That's my main concern. Specifically with 'using'. (I don't actually
care so much about such organizations *writing* new copyleft-nexted
works, although it might be nice.)
This does give me an idea for doing something similar, but I need to
think about it.
BTW copyleft-next has been temporarily dormant mostly because I, the
SABDNNFL, have lately had various real-life things severely minimizing
the copiousness of my spare time.
However, a small part of the dormancy has to do with a very basic
drafting problem I am trying to figure out how to deal with, as to
which I may post something to this list separately in the near future.
- RF