On 22/02/13 19:50, Mike Linksvayer wrote:
The obvious way to deal with relicensing is to expand "this
License" in
> b) initiate a patent infringement litigation claim (excluding
> declaratory judgment actions, counterclaims, and cross-claims)
> alleging that any work under this License directly or indirectly
> infringes any patent.
to include any license this license may be relicensed as (so any GPL
work),
I expect that would fall foul of the GPL's "no further restrictions"
clause.
hurdles to join. To extent copyleft-next successfully implements
idea
and is adopted, or other free software licenses copy implementation,
free software developers would gain some incremental protection, at
least a bit more than they're getting now with effective "pool"
limited to particular works.
We might want to allow other licenses to join the same "protection
pool", perhaps by giving the pool a name that could be referenced.
Still, I like it. Heck, I like MPL 1.1's approach, which I did
not
fully understand before. Has MPL 1.1 termination ever actually come up
in patent litigation?
Not to my knowledge, but my knowledge is far from complete.
Gerv